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Kent, Rockwell; Eliot Stanley, ed.

The Jewel : a Romance of Fairyland.

Portland: The Baxter Society, 1990. 2 vols in gray paperboard slipcase with white illustrated title label. One volume half white cloth and gray paper over boards, the other in matching gray wrappers. 15 leaves and 35, [blank p.], [1] pp. respectively, b&w and color illus.

First edition limited to 500 copies. Some copies were signed by Sally Kent Gorton. This copy is not signed. Facsimile edition and first publication of this illustrated manuscript fairy tale based on Kent’s relationship with the German-American follies dancer Hildegarde Hirsch. The companion volume consists of a note by editor and Kent collector Eliot Stanley. A handsome production.

CONDITION: Fine.

Item #3655

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