Nov 29, 2007 - Sale 2130

Sale 2130 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
WITH A TLS AND SIGNATURES KENT, ROCKWELL. Wilderness * Voyaging. Together, 2 volumes. 4to, original bindings, Wilderness is darkened and speckled with soiling along spine. New York, 1920; 1924

Additional Details

Wilderness is inscribed and signed by kent to friend and composer carl ruggles in month of publication. Ruggles served as Kent''s model for Captain Ahab in his illustrated version of Moby Dick. A Signed copy of the illustration "On Earth, Peace" is laid in. 1920 Voyaging. Ex-collection critic and author Henry S. Canby with his signature. Also a TLS by Kent to Leon Gutterman of the Wisdom Encyclopedia, thanking the group for honoring him "[it] is particularly heartening to me at this time when all feeling Americans are so deeply distressed by their country''s actions in Santo Domingo and Vietnam, and by the loss to us of most of all the world''s respect." New York, 2 May, 1966, 1 page, 8vo, on Ausable Forks letterhead.