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
Gehenna Press, 1974. 14 1/2 x 11 /12. Six gatherings of 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. Signed by Baskin in the colophon. An unbound binder's copy with 64 of the..... More
Lurey, Devon: The Gehenna Press, 1982. 6 1/2 x 9. Title, (52) pages with 26 line cut illustrations from drawings by Baskin, errata page, hand colored wood engraved press mark (owl & pomegranate). Cream vellumized boards titled in gilt, gilt owl on upper cover. Fine copy, signed by Kaplan and..... More
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1997. 11 x 16 1/2. (11) pages of text followed by 26 plates of etchings (most in color). Each copper engraving is numbered & signed by Baskin. Full stained green vellum by Daniel Gehnrich, gilt title & lizard on upper cover. In quarter green vellum & cloth..... More
1968. Original wood engraving, matted. 14 x 8.9 cm. No. 14 of 100, signed by Baskin. Fern 506. More
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 1999. 5 x 7. 3 text pages, 8 tipped-on wood engravings, and a tipped-in framing label. Red silk cloth with paper labels. A fine copy. One of 200 copies signed by Baskin, Blinn, Perry Smith, and Harold McGrath. Created between 1955 and 1974, only two of these..... More
New Haven, 1967. 6 x 9 1/2. Color frontis by Blake, 27, (1) pages, including 9 plates. Brown morocco & boards. Spine slightly lighter with a few very tiny spots. Very good in paper slipcase. No. 95 of 300 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni in Dante type. Leonard Baskin's..... More
Northampton, 2004. 8 x 9 1/2. Tipped in wood engraving by Leonard Baskin of a pomegranate in red, 133 pages illustrated throughout. Wraps. Fine in clamshell case by BB. Inscribed by B. Blumenthal & David Bourbeau. This is partially a census of Northampton area book workers from 1954-2004. Some 80..... More
(Easthampton, 1991). 8 x 11. Etched portrait, title calligraphed in red by Betsy Curtis, (x), (80), (vi) pages. Wood engravings by Leonard Baskin, Barry Moser, Alan Robinson, & Fritz Eichenberg. Color portrait by Lance Hidy. Bound by Claudia Cohen in marbled boards with red paper spine label. Fine. With an..... More
Northampton, 1951-1992. Prospectuses include "The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin" (stained), Zapf's Civilité Disclosed," "The Gehenna Shakespeare," "Eemis Stane," "Terminalia ," "Gypsy," "Icones Librorum Artifices (Second Series)," "Demons, Imps, & Fiends," and Flosculi Sententiarum." All were printed at the press, with illustrations by Leonard Baskin. There is also a prospectus..... More
(Northampton, 1974). 7 1/4 x 11 1/4. Portrait by Leonard Baskin, 96 pages. Full vellum with double gilt rules, yapp fore edges, by Gray Parrot. Book plates of Harold & Nancy Hugo. A fine copy. Copy I of five special copies, signed by Kunitz, bound in full vellum, with an..... More
(Northampton, 1970). 5 x 7. 22 leaves. Frontis bust of Tennyson SIGNED by Baskin. Title engraved by John Howard Benson and printed from the block in red. Four other etchings (two on blue paper, one in three colors) EACH SIGNED BY BASKIN. Bound by Arno Werner in full vellum, quarter..... More
Double Elephant Press, (Northampton), 2000. Broadside 9 x 19 1/2. An etching (5 x 6) of a male figure whose arms & head metamorphose into tree branches where sits (Athena's) owl, surmounts Michael's poem to Baskin. Fine. No. 65 of 75 signed copies, none for sale. Poem, etching, and presswork..... More
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1967. 8 x 11. (25) pages illustrated with 24 drawings by Baskin. Boards, spine label. Harold Hugo & family member's small bookplates inside front cover. A fine association copy inscribed by Baskin to "Harold: picture printer from Leonard: type printer." One of 400 copies; this signed "printer's..... More
