WILDERNESS A JOURNAL OF QUIET ADVENTURE IN ALASKA
1920 · New York & London
by Kent, Rockwell
New York & London: Putnam, 1920. Quarto. Grey linen, lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Endsheet maps. Frontis, plates and decorations by the author. Front inner hinge cracked and neatly mended, modest darkening to cloth, a small smudge to the upper board, but a good copy, without the dust jacket. First edition, first binding, of Kent's first book as sole author. A significant portion of the edition appeared at a later date in a secondary binding of decorated tan boards. With the early, pictorial (thunderbird motif) bookplate of historian/novelist Paul Horgan. (Inventory #: WRCLIT78152)