Unser Kent: Original Signed Lithograph by Kent as Frontispiece

Book Description

Cortlandt, NY: Privately Published, 1930. First Edition Thus/Limited Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, tips through, gentle bump at heel, touch of toning at spine, else tight, bright and unmarred. Quarterbound, vellum spine, blue patterned paper boards, red leather label at front board, gilt lettering and decorative elements, frontispiece, teg. 4to. np. Illus. (b/w plates). (See, Zigrosser, 61; Jones, 30) One of 85 copies. Plate at front board reads, "His Flute Might Break But 'Tis never Bent Such Is The Secret of Unser Kent." Bookplate of noted collector, Bayard Kilgour, Jr. at front pastedown (see, Dickinson, p.192). Follows first printing of 13 copies in 1928 so filled with errors that Kent stopped the run and made corrections before printing the 85 copies [current status of 13 unknown]. Very scarce volume as most are now institutionalized. Includes a signed lithograph by Rockwell Kent entitled "The Olympian Peirce reading his terrific lines to a group of young ladies". Satiric poem of Rockwell Kent by Peirce. A handsome copy of this very scare Kent volume, signed by the artist.

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