Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1997. 9 1/2 x 12 1/2. 26 leaves, including 24 mult-colored montotype portraits of imaginary artisans. Tray case. Fine. This copy not bound, to better have the opportunity to individually display the portraits. Included is a special full leather inlaid and gilt replica of the binding cover... 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
1978. 75 x 51 cm. Original Etching. A signed artist's proof, inscribed by Baskin "For Harold [Hugo] from Leonard 1981." An edition of 125 copies was published by Horn Editions & Kennedy Graphics. Harold Hugo, whose Meriden Gravure printed some of Baskin's work, was a close friend. Fern 667. 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
The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1959. 5 1/2 x 9. Title, 9 pages, colophon, pressmark. Illustrated with 8 engravings. Grey paper wraps, cover label. Bookplates of Harold & Nancy Hugo. With an EXTRA SUITE of the 8 engravings, each signed, on Japanese vellum (with much finer impressions than those on... More
5 1/4 x 4 3/4. 28 leaves in black & red, illustrated with c19 wood engravings and stereotypes. Printed wraps, very good. One of 500 copies printed at the Gehenna Press. Several versions of the letter appear on the left side facing an illustration and phrase on the right. Five... More
(Northampton), 1965. 5 x 6 1/4. 16 leaves printed rectos only. Marbled paper (by Peter Franck) over boards, title label on upper cover. Fine. With the rare 4-page prospectus. No. 41 of 100 signed copies. Printed in a variety of colors on pre-WW II Amalfi (from Bruce Rogers) using Van... More
(Northampton, 1968). Oblong 6 1/2 x 5 3/4. 21 pages in black & colors throughout on rectos only, on various papers. Bound by Gray Parrot in marbled boards; paper title label on spine. Fine. Leonard Baskin identifies each ornament, giving the book in which it was used from 1564 to... More
Lurey, Devon, 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. Fine copy, in marbled slipcase. A special, association copy, "Printer's copy" signed and inscribed by... More
1951-1992. Catalogues are : "A Listing of Books to be had ...and several new works," (circa 1963; wraps toned), "Four New Gehenna Press Books 1971," and an 8-page partially illustrated catalogue of 20 books still in print from 1968 to 1992. Prospectuses are for "The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin"... More
(Northampton), 1970 (not published until 1975). 5 1/2 x 8. 104, (1) pages. Cloth, marbled slipcase. Bookplates of Nancy & Harold Hugo on pastedown. Fine. Number 2 of 300 copies, printed in Centaur and Arrighi types. With a special, etched signed portrait of Brown by Leonard Baskin laid in. The... 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
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1967. 8 x 11. (25) pages. 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 copy" and inscribed. Printed in Arrighi... More
Easthampton, 1999. 5 x 7. 3 text pages, 8 tipped-on wood engravings, and a tipped-in framing label. Red silk cloth with paper labels. Fine, with prospectus. One of 200 copies signed by Baskin, Blinn, Perry Smith, and Harold McGrath. Created between 1955 and 1974, only two of these blocks have... More
