Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska (designers dummy)
by Kent, Rockwell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Putnam, 1920. Later printing. 217 pp., 8.5 x 11.25 inches. Printed cloth over boards. Disbound; see comments.
This copy of the second printing of Kents first book was marked up by a designer to be used as (or to accompany) setting copy for a new edition, most likely the Modern Library edition of 1930. The book has been disbound, the marked-up pages laid loose into the covers. (Note that most but not all pages are present; this is not a copy for a first reading!)
Pencil markings indicate changes for the new format and design: text width, typeface and point sizes, alignments, galley breaks, and so on, with scattered notes and notations throughout (including at least one typographical error, an upside-down letter, caught by the designer).
An unexpected and unusual survival of a process document, and clearly one-of-a-kind.
This copy of the second printing of Kents first book was marked up by a designer to be used as (or to accompany) setting copy for a new edition, most likely the Modern Library edition of 1930. The book has been disbound, the marked-up pages laid loose into the covers. (Note that most but not all pages are present; this is not a copy for a first reading!)
Pencil markings indicate changes for the new format and design: text width, typeface and point sizes, alignments, galley breaks, and so on, with scattered notes and notations throughout (including at least one typographical error, an upside-down letter, caught by the designer).
An unexpected and unusual survival of a process document, and clearly one-of-a-kind.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Passages Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4129
- Title
- Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska (designers dummy)
- Author
- Kent, Rockwell
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Putnam
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
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About the Seller
Passages Bookshop
Biblio member since 2008
Portland, Oregon
About Passages Bookshop
Passages Bookshop stocks fine, rare, and unusual books and graphic art, with a concentration on modern and contemporary literature and art (particularly poetry and the avant-garde), artist's books, fine printing, and the book arts. The successor to New York City's Bridge Bookshop (late 1980s), Passages opened in Albuquerque in 1994 and relocated to Portland, Oregon, in 1997. Recently settled into our new location in NW Portland, we are open by appointment or chance. Proprietor: David Abel, info@passagesbookshop.com
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...