BASKIN, Leonard. Bresdin to Redon. Six Letters 1870 to 1881.. , 1969.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: BASKIN, Leonard. Bresdin to Redon. Six Letters 1870 to 1881. Etched portrait by Leonard Baskin. Edited by Roseline Baker, translated by Seymour S. Weiner. Large 8vo, quarter morocco and marbled boards by Gray Parrot. [Northampton]: The Gehenna Press, 1969. First edition. A charming little example of the work of the Gehenna Press. In this book Baskin links two of his favourite artists through their correspondence. Unlike today, at the time of publication both Rodolphe Bresdin and Odilon Redon were relatively little known. One of three hundred regular copies, from a total edition of four hundred numbered copies printed in Centaur and Arrighi types on Japanese paper by Harold P. McGrath.
Seller: Ursus Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Unpaginated. 26 x16 cm. Limited edition, copy 207 of 300 on Japanese paper with a double portrait of Bresdin and Redon etched by Baskin, and signed in the plate. Harold P. McGrath pressman with Gray Parrot Hancock Me small book label at rear inside cover. Almost as new copy. Orig. black morocco spine lettered in gilt and marbled boards. Fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 6 3/8 in. x 10 1/8 in. Quarter-bound in blue cloth, marbled paper over boards; small indentation to the middle left hsnd side of the leather spine. Four hundred copies were printed, one hundred of which were specially bound. Of the other three hundred, this is numbered 131 and signed by Baskin whose etching of Redon and Bresdin appears in the book.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.