PRESUMPTIONS OF DEATH. Poems by Anthony Hecht. Woodcuts by Leonard Baskin.
Baskin, Leonard. Anthony Hecht.
Leeds: Gehenna Press, 1995. 11 x 14 1/2. Title woodcut in black, red, blue and green, 50 leaves, including 22 original woodcuts each numbered and signed by Baskin. Bound by Gray Parrot in full black morocco with grey leather onlay of a death head framed within triple gilt rule, red morocco spine label. Accompanied by the original woodblock for the poem "Peek-a-Boo," a watercolor of Peek-a-Boo, one page of Hecht's working manuscript for the poem, and 5 hand painted proofs of woodcuts in the book. Housed in a red cloth portfolio, within red cloth and black morocco clamshell case. Fine, with prospectus. (Item ID: 15192)
$20,000.00
Number 3 of 10 special copies, signed by Hecht and Baskin, with an original woodblock, page of manuscript, watercolor by Baskin, and 5 hand painted proofs of woodcuts. (There were also 40 regular copies.) Letterpress by Arthur Larson on handmade Velke Losiny. In this Dance of death, twenty-two poems and woodcuts portray Death the Copper-plate Printer, the Oxford Don, the carnival Barker, the Society Lady, the Mexican revolutionary, the Painter, the Poet--among others.
