THE JEWEL A ROMANCE OF FAIRYLAND
by [Kent, Rockwell]:
Price: $175.00
- Bookseller: William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: WRCLIT 58231
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: [Portland, ME: The Baxter Society, 1990].
Book Description
[Portland, ME: The Baxter Society, 1990].. Two volumes. Large octavo. Cloth and boards, and gilt lettered wrapper over stiff wrapper. Illustrations, facsimiles and plates. Fine in slipcase. First public edition of this private calligraphic "book" presented by Kent to Hildegarde Hirsch in 1917. The accompanying volume of commentary includes a Preface by Sally Kent Gorton and a detailed essay on the text and its history by Eliot Stanley. From a total edition of five hundred copies printed at the Stinehour Press, this is one of four hundred unsigned copies, and as well in this case, unnumbered.
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