Item #28172 It's Me O Lord. The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent. Rockwell Kent.

It's Me O Lord. The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent.

New York: Dodd Mead, 1955. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear to the extremities. Rockwell Kent easily lived up to his favorite phrase, “Let’s get something done.”In his younger days, he built with his own hands the houses he lived in. He married three wives and conducted a number of apparently troublesome love affairs. His travels carried him for long periods to Newfoundland and Alaska, Greenland and Terra del Fuego. He waged legal warfare against a shipping line and a railroad; crusaded for socialism, worked busily as a commercial artist; and always painted pictures. Mr. Kent, who proudly claimed to he a Communist of sorts, emerges from this autobiography as a naively opinionated, incorrigibly rambunctious, but courageous and essentially well-meaning man. He tells the story of his Bohemian career with an unfortunate lack of selectivity but with a great deal of spirit. Fully illustrated with 96 new drawings, 170 reproductions of his previous drawings, and 8 reproductions of his own paintings in color. Item #28172

Price: $300.00

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