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BASKIN, LEONARD.. Demons, Imps & Friends.. [Northampton, Massachusetts] (The Gehenna Press), 1976.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: (2)pp., 18 plates. 4to. Dec. marbled boards, black leather spine gilt. Edition limited to 450 numbered copies, printed on "various interesting papers" by pressman Harold McGrath.
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.
Baskin, Leonard. Demons, Imps, & Fiends: Drawings by Leonard Baskin. The Gehenna Press, 1976.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Gehenna Press, 1976. Book measures 8.25" x 11.5". This volume contains 18 drawings by Baskin printed on various paper stocks, with Harold McGrath doing the presswork. Limited edition of 450 copies. This copy is a printers copy, and is unnumbered. Marbled paper covered boards with black morocco leather spine with gilt lettering. Light wear to top and bottom spine ends, and a touch of faint wear to edges of boards. Binding is solid. A Very Good+ copy.
Seller: Bendowa Books, Holyoke, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Imperial 8vo (11.625" x 8.25"), marbled paper spine and boards, black morocco lettering piece at spine with gilt author/title/press. 6 blank leaves; [1] title p.; [3] quotation from St. Bernard of Clairvaux; [5-39] drawings; [41] colophon with pressmark; 5 blank leaves. Bookplate of Wyman Parker at lower left corner of front paste-down. Printed and typed receipt from The Gehenna Press for Wyman W. Parker, dated 21 March 1977 laid in. CONDITION: Covers very good, slight wear to extremities; contents near fine. A marvelously captivating book of monsters. The text consists solely of a passage from St. Bernard of Clairvaux, which serves as a sort of preface. This is copy #30 of 450 numbered copies. REFERENCES: Baskin, The Gehenna Press : The Work of Fifty Years, 79.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Baskin, Leonard. Demons Imps & Fiends. The Gehenna Press, 1976.
Price: US$394.68 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Slim 4to. Not paginated. Red, blue, black, and white marbled paper boards with a black leather spine label lettered in gilt. Small scuff to the leather spine in one spot, and light rubbing to the spine head, else a clean and tight copy. Printed by Harold McGrath on various interesting papers in an edition of 450 copies, this is no. 14. Wonderful Baskin book.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Baskin, Leonard. Demons, Imps & Fiends. Gehenna Press, Northampton, MA, 1976.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Marbled boards with black spine and gilt spine lettering. 21 unnumbered pages. Mainly illustrations, some on tissue. "450 copies of this book were printed on various interesting papers during the autumn of 1976. The pressman was Harold McGrath. This is copy number 43." VG, spine is loose on one copy.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer, and teacher. He founded Gehenna Press, a small private press that specialized in the production of fine books, while he was a student at Yale. Baskin was a friends of Ted Hughes and illustrated Crow; Hughes' wife, Sylvia Plath, dedicated "Sculptor" to Baskin in her famous work The Colossus and Other Poems (1960). The text of Demons, Imps & Fiends consists of a quotation from St. Bernard of Clairvaux. The illustrations feature various fantastical creatures in Baskin's signature style Folio. Unpaginated. Illustrated terra cotta title page printed in red and black. Nineteen drawings printed from line cuts in red and black on rectos only. Marbled boards with gilt-lettered black leather spine label. Binding extremities have some very minor rubbing. Presentation copy, inscribed on a preliminary blank, "for .from Leonard at Boston Book Fair, 1989." A fine copy. One of 450 copies was printed on various interesting papers; this is copy 263.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Baskin, Leonard. Demons, Imps, and Fiends. Gehenna Press, Northampton, MA, 1976.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition. Hardcover. "450 copies of this book were printed on various interesting papers during the autumn of 1976. The pressman was Harold McGrath." Bound by Gray Parrot. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Marbled paper boards, black leather spine label, gilt lettering. 4to. np. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition. Signed by Baskin.
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Baskin, Leonard. Demons, Imps, and Fiends. Gehenna Press, Northampton, MA, 1976.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition. Hardcover. "450 copies of this book were printed on various interesting papers during the autumn of 1976. The pressman was Harold McGrath." Bound by Gray Parrot. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Marbled paper boards, black leather spine label, gilt lettering. 4to. np. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 131. Signed by Baskin.
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Unpaginated. 29.5 x 21 cm.Limited edition, hand numbered copy 153 of 450 "printed on various interesting papers during the autumn of 1976." Printed by Harold McGrath. Nineteen, mostly full page portraits printed recto only on papers of various thickness and color. The one page of text at rear consists of a quotation from St. Bernard of Clarevaux. Orig. decorated marbled boards and black leather spine lettered in gilt. Fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.