Rockwell Kent - N by E

New York, New York Literary Guild, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this illustrated account of the author's experiences on a painting expedition to Greenland. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, vignette title, eight plates, and many in-text figures. Collated complete. In the summer of 1929, the author sailed on a painting expedition to Greenland recording his adventures and mishaps, which are recounted in this best-selling work. After meeting Danish Arctic explorers Peter Freuchen and Knud Rasmussen on this trip, Kent was determined to return to Greenland to paint and write. He spent two years above the Arctic Circle in a little fishing settlement, where he went on to conceive some of the most celebrated paintings of his career. Written and illustrated by Rockwell Kent, an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor rubbing to the extremities and discolouration or fading to the spine and board edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Light age toning to the endpapers with a contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Good . Ill.: Rockwell Kent. Good .

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