Elva
New York: Covici-Friede Publishers, 1929. Rockwell Kent (dust jacket illustration). Second Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. [2], 3-353. Bound in khaki cloth with gilt lettering and decoration stamped on front board and spine. Top edge dyed red. Slight wear to cloth, and with "E. 141" written in ink on front free endpaper. In the illustrated dust jacket with substantial fading to spine, soiling to rear pane, and light edge-wear. The price of $2.50 remains intact on the front flap. Very Good+ / Good+. Item #6241 Rockwell Kent's dust jacket design for Elva is a high-spot in the classical-heroic leitmotif of art-deco dust jacket illustrations. For a book that went into a second printing, it's unaccountably scarce; with dust jacket, rare. And although the dust jacket might look familiar, that's due to its former use in AbeBooks marketing collateral; by using the usual terms in internet searches, we have been unable to find an online image of the book. Dust jacket is now enclosed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
Grinstead served as American Vice Consul in Hamburg; this, his first novel, concerns Salem witchcraft.
Price: $650.00