Fine Books & Manuscripts

KENT, Rockwell, illustrator (1882–1971). Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan. New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons and Knickerbocker Press, 1924. 4to. Numerous wood engravings and maps by Kent. Publisher’s light tan cloth pictorially stamped in black, top edge gilt, decorative map endpapers (front inner hinge cracked and starting, tiny stain to upper cover). Provenance: Catharine Bamman (penciled presentation inscriptions on copyright and dedication leaf). FIRST TRADE EDITION INSCRIBED BY KENT to Bamman. [Also with:] lengthy inscriptions by Merle Armitage and book designer T. M. Cleland to Bamman who wrote the foreword to Armitage’s “Dance Memoranda”. –– [TOGETHER WITH:] World Famous Paintings. Edited by Kent. New York: Wise & Co., 1939. Profusely illustrated. Publisher’s embossed cloth with pictorial cover label. FIRST EDITION. –– [ALSO WITH:] VERCEL, Roger. In Sight of Eden. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1933]. 8vo. Illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Original tan cloth pictorially stamped in black and red; original dust jacket designed by Kent. FIRST EDITION.