Jun 17, 2010 - Sale 2217

Sale 2217 - Lot 529

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
A KENT RARITY KENT, ROCKWELL. Elmer Adler. 3 photographic plates of Adler and 2 illustrations by Kent. 28 pages. Small thin 8vo, original marbled boards, most of spine lacking, two cellotape reinforcements; one small crease to fore edge of one page. New York: (Harbor Press), 1929
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one of only twenty-five unnumbered copies signed by kent in ink, on the colophon. Created as a souvenir for a birthday dinner for Adler on April 30, 1929. Adler, the noted book collector, printer, and publisher, founded the Pynson Printers in 1922 and a year after this Kent souvenir, became a principal creator of The Colophon, the influential and long-running journal of the printing arts. Grolier 30.