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Published by The Museum of Modern Art. The Gehenna Press, Northhampton, Mass., 1957
Seller: abibliodocs, Montréal, QC, Canada
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Limited edition. No 548/975 copies. 26 x 30 cm. Sewn blue-grey wrappers with printed label. In a cardboard portfolio with light edge wear and faded wrappers. Six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on hand-made paper and tissues. This book was designed, illustrated and printed by Baskin. Portofolio in good condition. Softcover, (not the cover cardboard of portofolio), texts and engravings with tissues in very good condition. Internally fresh. Signed. Portofolio.
Published by Museum of Modern Art, 1962
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Softcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. #285/975cc, signed by Leonard Baskin. Light foxing on the fore edge. In a broken case.
Published by Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1957
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Leonard Baskin (illustrator). Oblong 8vo (250 x 295mm). 13pp. Sewn booklet in Unevenly and heavily sunned pale blue folder with edge wear. Illustrated with wood engravings by Baskin and signed by Baskin in an edition of 1000 copies, this being No. 285. Done at the Gehenna Press for the Museum of Modern Art. A good copy only.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, 1957
Seller: Mossback Books, Hartland, MI, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Oblong quarto in blue wraps, consisting of six engravings and one cherry woodcut in string-tied blue-paper wraps, very very faint tone on edge, one engraving has a tiny chip at edge, else FINE. All housed in folding hard-cover chemise which is covered in toned blue paper over boards. One hinge cracked the other started. This is #822 copy of a limited edition of 1,000; signed by Leonard Baskin. From the colophon we read: "This book, the second in a series of limited editions published by The Museum of Modern Art under the direction of Monroe Wheeler has been designed, illustrated and printed by Baskin. The illustrations have been printed from six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on Amalfi Italian hand-made paper and on Moriki and Mending Tissue, both hand-made in Japan. ." ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1957
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited edition. Designed, illustrated and printed by Leonard Baskin at The Gehenna Press. Oblong quarto. Sewn blue wrappers with printed label. Faintly worn wraps, still fine in a very good cardboard portfolio with light edgewear and uneven toning. Copy number 396 of 975 numbered copies, Signed by Baskin. "The illustrations have been printed from six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on Amalfi Italian hand-made paper and on Moriki and Mending Tissue, both hand-made in Japan.".
Published by Museum of Modern Art, NY., 1957
Seller: The Old Print Shop, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Poems by Hart Crane, 7 wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. Second in a series of limited editions published by MOMA, under the direction of Monroe Wheeler, this book was designed, illustrated and printed by Baskin at The Ghenna Press, Northampton, MA. limited to 975 numbered copies and 25 lettered review copies, all signed by Baskin. Oblong quarto, bl. 4to., blue stitched wraps, printed label on cover and spine, in folding portfolio. Overall good condition, mild light discoloration on the outer wraps, inner book near mint. Inventory 33669.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1957
Seller: Karen Jakobsen (Member of the PBFA), Sturminster Newton, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. leonard baskin (illustrator). Limited Edition. Oblong quarto. Blue stitched wraps with a printed label to cover, enclosed within a folding portfolio. Condition: Very good, with just a faint hint of wear to cover edges. The folding portfolio is in fair/poor condition, with quite heavy wear to the edges and spine, the edge of which is split with some peeling of paper away from the spine, general sunning to edges and a small watersplash mark to the lower corner of front cover (see image). However, it has served its purpose, protecting the contents well. The second in a series of limited editions published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and under the direction of Monroe Wheeler, this book was designed, illustrated and printed by Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) at The Gehenna Press, Northampton, Massachusetts (the Gehenna Press was founded by Baskin). The edition was limited to 975 numbered copies, all signed by Baskin, this is number 327. (There were also 25 lettered review copies). The poems by Hart Crane were reprinted by permission of the Liveright Publishing Corporation from "Collected Poems of Hart Crane". The illustrations were printed from six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on Amalfi Italian hand-made paper and on Moriki and Mending Tissue, both hand-made in Japan. Signed by Artist.
Published by Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1957
Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Art / Print / Poster First Edition Signed
Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. [28] p., 2 leaves of tissue plates: six wood engravings and one woodcut; 26 x 29 cm. Stitched blue-grey wrappers with label printed in red and black. Within original portfolio covered in the same glue-grey paper with matching printed label on the front and a spine label printed in red. Designed, illustrated, and printed by Leonard Baskin at the Gehenna Press, Nov. 1957. Handprinted in Perpetua type. "The illustrations have been printed from six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on Amalfi Italian hand-made paper and on Moriki and Mending Tissue, both hand-made in Japan." This is no. 635 of a limited edition of 975 copies, from an edition of 1000; signed by Leonard Baskin. It was honored as one of the "Fifty Books of the Year 1957" by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Book is in Near Fine Condition: front wrapper lightly creased from upper corner along fore-edge; clean and crisp. Portfolio is in Good Condition: both front sections are starting to separate along the front joints from the tail; color is faded; lacking small part of spine label; front label is complete and bright.
Published by Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1957
Seller: Four Rivers Books, LLC, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Signed
Condition: Fine. Leonard Baskin (illustrator). Designed, illustrated,and printed by Leonard Baskin. Illustrations have been printed from six boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on Amalfi Italian hand-made paper and on Japanese hand-made Moriki and mending tissue. Hand sewn in wrappers of green paper and enclosed in an envelope-style portfolio covered in the same paper. Label printed on the front cover. Part of a series of limited editions by the Museum of Modern Art. A lovely production. Number 54 of 975 numbered copies, and 25 lettered review copies, all signed by Baskin. Hand sewn in wrappers of green paper and enclosed in an envelope-style portfolio covered in the same paper. Label printed on the.
Paperback. Condition: Fine. Leonard Baskin (illustrator). A lovely limited edition of 'Voyages,' six poems by Hart Crane with wood engravings by Leonard Baskin, signed by the artist. A limited edition ofVoyages, a sequence of six erotic poems by influential American poet Hart Crane. This work was written across six years until 1926, and was inspired by Crane's romantic relationship with Emil Opffer, a Danish merchant mariner.This edition is decorated with some stunning wood engravings by Leonard Baskin, one per poem, and is limited to nine hundred and seventy five copies signed by the artist. This is copy number four hundred and eighty two. Collated, complete. The artwork is printed on Amalfi Italian hand-made paper and on Moriki and Mending Tissue, both hand-made in Japan.In the original publisher's portfolio. In the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally lovely. Signed by the artist to the limitation page. The portfolio is rather worn, the boards detached, with some loss to the head of the spine, and a touch of sunning to the spine and boards; Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Collated, complete with a wood engraving by Baskin per poem, printed on Amalfi Italian hand-made paper and on Moriki and Mending Tissue, both hand-made in Japan. Fine. signed by author. book.
Published by Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1957
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Art / Print / Poster First Edition Signed
[21]pp. Oblong small quarto. String-tied wrapper, with printed label. Illustrated. About fine in very good slipcase with moderate sunning along spine and edges. First printing in this format, illustrated with six wood-engravings and one woodcut by the printer, Leonard Baskin. From a total of one thousand copies printed at the Gehenna Press, this is one of 975 numbered copies, signed by Baskin. The second of the series of illustrated limited editions published by MOMA under the direction of Monroe Wheeler. SCHWARTZ & SCHWEIK A8. BROOK 11. BASKIN 11. ARTIST & THE BOOK 13.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Signed
Leonard Baskin (illustrator). Wrappers, 9-1/2 inches x 11 inches, in publisher's folding case. Fine, in fine case. One of 1000 copies, numbered and signed by Baskin. Schwartz and Schweik A 8.
BASKIN, Leonard. Voyages Six Poems. By Hart Crane. With wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. Oblong 4to., bound in blue paper wrappers, housed in a folding slipcase with white paper title label. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1957. One of an edition limited to 975 copies designed, illustrated and printed by Leonard Baskin at the Gehenna Press, with six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on hand-made papers. Baskin's mystical woodcuts are well suited for Crane's spiritual acuity. A fine copy with the folder in good condition, which is virtually never the case. The Artist and the Book, No. 13.