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ItemID: #117001
Cost: $800.00

Northern Christmas

Rockwell Kent

"WE FEAST AND HAVE A JOLLY GOOD TIME"

KENT, Rockwell. A Northern Christmas. Being the Story of a Peaceful Christmas in the Remote and Peaceful Wilderness of an Alaskan Island. New York: American Artists Group, (1941). Small octavo, original patterned cream boards, original dust jacket. $800.

First edition of this engaging Christmas story, signed on the half title by Rockwell Kent, with 16 in-text woodcut illustrations.

In this lovely work, Rockwell Kent tells the story of a Christmas he spent with his son in the Alaskan wilderness. Using excerpts and illustrations from Kent's Wilderness, A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska, this work is the first in a series of gift books produced by the American Artists Group.

Book fine; trace of edge-wear to bright about-fine dust jacket.

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