The book is bound in cream woven cloth with green writing to the front and spine, with an illustration of a compass in green on both front and spine. The pages are clean, although the edges are a little foxed, and the spine is strong. The covers are a little marked, but are fairly clean, although the top edge is somewhat foxed. In good condition and very readable. When artist, illustrator, writer, and adventurer Rockwell Kent first published N by E in a limited edition in 1930, his account of a voyage on a 33-foot cutter from New York Harbor to the rugged shores of Greenland quickly became a collectors' item. Little wonder, for readers are immediately drawn to Kent's vivid descriptions of the experience; we share "the feeling of wind and wet and cold, of lifting seas and steep descents, of rolling over as the wind gusts hit," and the sound "of wind in the shrouds, of hard spray flung on a drum-tight canvas, of rushing water at the scuppers, of the gale shearing a tormented sea." When