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KENT, ROCKWELL. Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920. Illustrated by Kent. 4to, original gilt-lettered gray linen, a little browning; pictorial dust jacket, tape-reinforced (with discoloration) along flap folds and a few places on verso, some chipping at edges. FIRST EDITION of the author's first book, in the First Binding, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by Kent on the verso of the frontispiece: "To my friend Pat Mogarick I inscribe - with, I hope, becoming pride this somehow splendid copy of my first book 'Wilderness' Faithfully - Rockwell Kent ... July 15, 1965."