NY: Viking Press, (19720. FIRST EDITION. 8 X 11 1/2. Twenty-six color illustrations face a jaunty example. (eg. "P is A primordial protozoa.") Pictorial boards, dust jacket. INSCRIBED by leonard Baskin for John & Mary [Peckham] in 1972. Inscribed again by Hosie in 2003 for Lynne & Bob. Near fine. More
NY: Knopf, (1985). 7 1/2 x 11. Twenty dragons (from various mythologies and literatures) each face a page of story about that dragon. INSCRIBED by Leonard Baskin to John [Peckham] in 1986. Inscribed again by Hosie to Bob & Lynne in 2001. Near fine copy. More
(South Norwalk, Winter 1994-1995). 9 1/2 x 12. Twelve leaves of color woodcuts and xylographic text in brown. A full page portrait (head) of a native American in earth tones faces a full page owl in purple & black, followed by seven double-spreads of a poem and an owl, concluding... More
Incline Press, 2005. 10 x 14. Two volumes. 74 pages, with 35 mounted facsimiles. Cloth-backed printed boards. A separate paper portfolio contains 10 original broadsides. Fine in cloth & patterned paper slipcase. One of 200 copies. An exuberant book about Toni Savage and the 1960s private presses in Leicester. It... More
Paris, 1890. 10 x 14. Color title page, 55 color lithographed plates of porcelain and faience, each with a facing of description and prices; 47 monochrome plates of glassware; 15 pages of text by Louis Enalt. There is no plate 25, and none called for in the Table. Publisher's dark... More
Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 2004. 18 x 14. 24 leaves. A satiric "natural history." Ten plates (13 1/2 x 9 1/2) are etched with images of the beasts, their common names & binomial nomenclature. The etchings are hand colored by Kuch, in the tradition of natural history books. A description... More
Minor Confluence, 1981. 5 1/2 x 7. (36) pages in three gatherings plus a 12-page booklet of footnotes. Boards, hand sewn on exposed tapes, with two pieces of twine across covers. Covers were variously decorated. This bears the decal of an airplane. Part of its wing has been rubbed off... More
Gehenna Press, 1974. 15 x 11 3/4. 140 leaves: title, colophon, and 66 wood engravings, woodcuts, and linoleum cuts by Leonard Baskin printed one to a leaf on Troya, and interleaved with backing sheets, plus 5 blanks. Signed by Baskin in the colophon. An unbound binder's copy with 64 of... More
Northampton: Propolis Press, 2002. 12 x 12. 15 pages, French-fold. Bound by Barry Spence in boards nature-printed from hand inked Fall foliage printed in greens & yellows; and housed in a walnut dyed four-flap folder. Fine. Limited to 40 copies, of which no two are exactly alike. Matched to Edelstein's... More
NY, (1980). 8 x 11. 3 leaves, 25 pages printed in black, blue, red, and green on J. B. Green's handmade Milbourne, with illustrations and decorations. Bound in limp natural linen. Fine. One of 85 numbered copies. An offbeat type specimen, with virtuoso shaped typography. In a 3-page spread about... More
NY: Double Elephant Press, 1998. 8 1/4 x 9 1/2. A double accordion-fold of 34 leaves: 17 leaves for Gluttons and 17 for Angels, mounted back--to-back and hinged with linen. There are 29 copper-plate etchings: those for Gluttons in shades of brown & rust; Angels in gold, green, and blue... More
Barbarian Press, 2000. 6 x 9. Three leaves. Tipped-in wood engraved portrait of Baskin. Wraps titled on cover. Fine. One of 150 copies. This copy is NOT signed. More
Iowa City: Naughty Dog Press, 2012. 10 3/4 x 10 3/4 when closed. A double tunnel book, with the two tunnels side-by-side. One side represents the Mother who has frontal lobe dementia; the other her family. The family's view is printed in black & grey and is prison-like; the mother's... More
Paris, B. Charles Mathieu, 1858. 4 1/2 x 6 1/2. (12), 149, (13) pages chromolithographed throughout. Cherry morocco richly gilt in a dentelle pattern, by Petit; spine & turn-ins gilt, silk endpapers, all edges gilt. Slightest touch of wear to raised bands, a fine copy. An exquisite book. Text pages... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, (1859-1860). Four volumes. 6 x 9. xv, 188 ; ix, 203; xi, 200; xiv, (1), 324 pages, plus 220 nature-printed plates in color. Engraved titles in each volume also bear a small nature-printed alga. Some light foxing throughout (mostly on the backs of plates). Later 19th... More
(Easthampton), 1972. 8 1/2 x 6. 8 leaves. Printed wraps. Proof copy of the portrait of Mondrian, before letters, is signed by Moser & laid in. Fine. "Only 25 or so copies survive" (Pennyroyal Checklist No. 6) of the 200 copies printed; Moser was unhappy with the portrait and destroyed... More
NY: Grolier Club, 1948. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. 36 pages, illustrated. Wraps of pastepaper made by Veronica Ruzicka. Some wear to extremities, very good. One of 500 copies, signed by Ruzicka. The catalogue, listing 233 items, was designed by Ruzicka and has a vignette & a 3-color engraving printed from the original blocks. More
Oxford, 1950. 5 x 7 1/2. 41 pages. Illustrated throughout with type specimens. Printed boards; outer joint partially split but tight, contents fine. Printed at Oxford in Fell types on handmade paper. Printed for Friends of the Press, a Compliments slip is laid in. More
Paris: At the Sign of thte Pegasus, 1927. 5 x 7 1/4. 82 pages. Quarter vellum & blue boards. Lower tips worn through, all else fine. Jackson Burke's copy. A collotype facsimile of the only known copy of the first printed treatise on the construction of Roman capital letters. Stanley... More
Paris, 1840. 10 1/4 x 15 1/2. 27 leaves (erratically paginated) including an ornate cameo portrait of Gutenberg printed in colors & gold; a type facsimile of the Donat fragment; a 4-page engraved facsimile of the 42-line Bible hand illuminated. Vignettes & borders engraved for this work were canceled, and... More
Northampton: Catawba Press, 1980. 6 x 8 1/2. 5 pages, with a full page wood engraving of the insect by Abigail Rorer. Wraps marbled by Don Guyot. Fine. No. 174 of 175 copies printed by Barbara Blumenthal. Signed by the artist. More
Philadelphia: L. Johnson & Co., 1893. Eighteenth Edition, Revised & Enlarged. 4 1/2 x 7 1/2. Frontis of MacKellar, 348 pages, (4) pages ads. Beveled navy cloth boards, all edges dyed red Light wear, near fine. The last edition (only slightly different from the 17th ed.) of this popular American... More
Paris, 2007. 6 1/2 x 8 1/2. (27) pages printed in black on brown paper. Printed wraps, in oversized cloth slipcase (slight bump to one corner). Fine. This appears to be a satire on the French language. Speaking of its fluidity and adaptability, this "Open "Letter" to a member of... More
(London), June 1904. 8 1/2 x 10. 4 text pages, 10 b&w photographic plates of the room and Whistler's oil painted & gilded murals. Contemporary green crushed morocco richly gilt in an arabesque pattern, turn-ins with gilt floral roll, Cockerel peacock marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Armorial bookplate of Annie... More
Yale University Press, 1948. 4 x 6 5/8. (29) pages. Ribbed blue cloth, gilt title on upper cover. Some spotting on upper cover, spine faded. Very good. Autograph note by Bruce Rogers in the colophon reads "200 copies on special paper & bound in boards/Bruce Rogers." Designed by BR, with... More
