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Laurana, Francesco; Kennedy, Clarence (photographs); Kennedy, Ruth Wedgwood (intro.). Four Portrait Busts by Francesco Laurana. Gehenna Press, [Northampton, Massachusetts], 1962.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Grey-blue paper over boards, backed in gilt-lettered Japanese vellum; glassine dust jacket; 4to; with introductory biography, 12 photogravure plates, bibliography. Book is fine, in chipped glassine. A very elegant production.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

Kennedy Ruth Wedgwood. Four Portrait Busts by Francisco Laurana: Gehenna Essays in Art. The Gehenna Press, Northampton, MA, 1962.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Light wear to boards. Attractively printed - number 203 of 500 copies. Size: Octavo (8vo). Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Illustrator: Clarence Kennedy. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Art & Design; Inventory No: 042269.

Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

. FOUR PORTRAIT BUSTS BY FRANCESCO LAURANA, PHOTOGRAPHS BY CLARENCE KENN EDY WITH AN INTRODUCTORY BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BY RUTH WEDGWOOD KENNEDY. The Gehenna Press, Northampton, 1962.

Price: US$120.00 + shipping

Description: tall 8vo. dark grey Roma over boards with Strathmore Alexandria spine, original glassine wrapper. (28) pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies, of which this is one of 450 copies bound thus. (Baskin 29; Brooks .30). Spine lightly age-darkened, else a fine copy. With 12 photographs by Clarence Kennedy. The first volume in the "Essays In Art" series. Printed by Harold McGrath at the Gehenna Press. dark grey Roma over boards with Strathmore Alexandria spine, original glassine wrapper

Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.

Kennedy, Ruth Wedgwood. Four Portrait Busts by Francesco Laurana. The Gehenna Press, Northampton, MA, 1962.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardback bound in quarter vellum with bluish gray paper-covered boards with gilt title on the spine and deckled page edges. Only defect to note on the book is sunned top edge of the cover. This is a Limited Edition #71 of 500 copies. 12 black and white plates of Laurana works. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

Seller: K. L. Givens Books, Bella Vista, AR, U.S.A.

[The Gehenna Press] Laurana, Francesco; Clarence Kennedy, photographs; Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy, introductory biographical essay. Four Portrait Busts by Francesco Laurana. The Gehenna Press, Northampton, MA, 1962.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Hardcover. 193 of 500 copies. Francesco Laurana (1430 - 1502) was an Dalmatian sculptor (Italian and Croatian) known for his portrait busts. "His art is legible to us today and awakens in us the joy of recognition" (introduction). Includes introductory essay, 12 plates, and bibliography. Essays printed by Harold McGrath, plates printed at the Meriden Gravure Co., in Meriden, Connecticut. Printed in Centaur and Arrighi types on Amalfi paper, handmade in Italy with plates on Tovil paper, handmade in England. Bound in blue laid paper over cream parchment spine titled in gilt. A few small spots of foxing to parchment. Clean interior overall with minor browning to endpapers from glue used in binding. Small scattered spots of foxing, mostly to margins. In original glassine, which is browned wiht a few tears to edges. Unpaginated. PRI/101923.

Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.

Kennedy, Ruth Wedgwood; Clarence Kennedy (photographer). Four Portrait Busts by Francesco Laurana. The Gehenna Press, Northampton, 1962.

Price: US$158.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, Limited #194 or 500 copies. 8vo. Unpaginated. Photographic plates by Clarence Kennedy with an Introductory Biographical Essay by Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy. Quarter vellum under grey paper covered boards; gilt titles to the spine; publisher watermarked fine paper; fore and bottom edge deckled. Faint darkening to spine and across upper front board else a fine copy. The first volume in the "Essays In Art" series. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Seller: Carpe Diem Fine Books, ABAA, Monterey, CA, U.S.A.

[Gehenna Press]: Laurana, Francesco [artist]. FOUR PORTRAIT BUSTS BY.. The Gehenna Press, [Northampton], 1962.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Description: Small quarto. Parchment and boards. Photographs. Trace of sunning at edges, else fine in glassine wrapper. First edition. Introductory essay by Ruth W. Kennedy. Photographs by Clarence Kennedy. One of 450 numbered copies, printed on Amalfi and Tovil handmade papers, with the plates executed by Meriden Gravure, from a total edition of five hundred copies. BASKIN 29.

Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.

(Gehenna Press) Laurana, Francesco. Four Portrait Busts by Francesco Laurana. With an Introductory Essay by Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy. The Gehenna Press, [Northampton, Mass.], 1962.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: No. 42 of 500 copies, signed by Leonard Baskin. First of the Gehenna Essays in Art. Photographs by Clarence Kennedy. 12 plates. 1 vols. Small 4to. Baskin 29 Bound in dark grey Roma over boards with Strathmore Alexandria spine. Fine, in Fine slipcase Photographs by Clarence Kennedy. 12 plates. 1 vols. Small 4to No. 42 of 500 copies, signed by Leonard Baskin. First of the Gehenna Essays in Art.

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

. Four Portrait Busts by Francesco Laurana. The Gehenna Press, Northampton, 1962.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. With an Introductory Essay by Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy. Photographs by Clarence Kennedy. Small quarto. 12 plates. The first of the Gehenna Essays in Art. Bound in dark grey Roma over boards with Strathmore Alexandria spine. Bookplate front pastedown, spine a little toned, else near fine lacking the slipcase. Designated as copy number 100 of 500 copies and Inscribed by Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy: "for the Cantina Press Associates. RWK"

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

LAURANA, FRANCESCO. FOUR PORTRAIT BUSTS. The Gehenna Press, Northampton, MA, 1962.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A total of 500 copies were printed. Fifty copies( i-L) were specially bound at the Harcourt Bindery, THIS BEING NUMBER xiii. Provided with an extra suite of plates in a folding heavy stock sleeve. From the Gehenna Essays in Art, this is the first volume. The text is set in monotype Centaur and Arrighi types, printed on Amalfi hand-made Italian paper. A fine production from the Gehenna Press. Photographs by Clarence Kennedy and introductory essay by Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy. Size: Octavo

Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.