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Euripedes. Hippolytos [prospectus]. Gehenna Press [c. 1969], 1969.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: [4] pp., 4to, single sheet folded once to 12 x 8 in. Prospectus only, With an illustration by Leonard Baskin printed in red. Printing on all four pages. Fine, with lateral fold for mailing.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
. Publication Announcement by Leonard Baskin. The Gehenna Press, N.P., 1969.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Announcement of publication of Euripedes, Hippolytos. Ten etchings by Leonard Baskin in the published work. Distributed by Chiswick Book Shop of New York. A fine copy.
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: [4]pp. Quarto leaflet (30.5 x 20.5 cm). Printed in black and red. Light use at edges, very good. The edition was limited to 200 numbered copies printed in Centaur and Arrighi types on Amalfi paper, illustrated with ten etchings by Leonard Baskin. BROOK 62. BASKIN 62.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Euripides. Hippolytos. Gehenna Press, 1969.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1969. Limited Edition. Etchings by Leonard Baskin printed from plates by Emiliano Sorini. Large folio with marbled boards and leather spine in marbled clamshell case. 10 prints with tissue overlays in marbled inner case. Boards show very light edgewear with some curving to edges. Prints and tissue overlays are clean and crisp, with a couple dog-eared corners and some rubbing to edges from outer case closure. Clamshell case shows a bit of curving at edges and some rubbing/bumping to edges and corners, but is sturdy and square with no splits or marks. Signed by Leonard Baskin under colophon at back and numbered 44 of 200 copies, of which 100 were available for sale.
Seller: Recycled Books, Denton, TX, U.S.A.
Euripides & Baskin, Leonard (Illus.). Hippolytos. Gehenna Press, Northampton, MA, 1969.
Price: US$898.29 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The sole printing published by Gehenna Press, Northampton, MA in 1969. The folio size BOOK is in near Fine condition. Number '24' of an edition of only 200 copies, signed by Leonard Baskin, of which only 100 were for sale. The book is bound in morocco-backed marbled boards with gilt titling, with the suite of 10 loose etchings housed in a chemise of marbled boards, and the two are laid into a box of morocco-backed marbled boards with gilt titling. Some very light spotting to the extreme edge of the etching pages but the plates are all clean .The clamshell folding box shows some edge-wear with some splitting at the spine ends , and minor rubbing to the extremities in places. One of the major productions of Baskin's Gehenna Press with ten striking etchings by Leonard Baskin. Collectible. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
EURIPIDES. Hippolytos. Gehenna Press, Northampton, 1969.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Translated by Robert Bagg. Illustrated with original etchings by Leonard Baskin. Rubricated title page and unpaginated text. Tall slim elephant folio, leather-backed marbled boards, uncut edges; housed in a matching clamshell slipcase (somewhat edgeworn). Northampton MA: Gehenna Press, 1969. A fine copy in a very good(+) box. Limited edition -- number 47 of 200 copies printed (100 were for sale), signed by Baskin. The 10 original etchings are on loose sheets, housed in a separate marbled board folder with the clamshell case.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Euripides. HIPPOLYTOS. The Gehenna Press, Northampton, 1969.
Price: US$960.00 + shipping
Description: folio. marbled boards and leather spine in marbled clamshell case. 10 prints with tissue overlays in marbled inner case, the book itself is unpaginated. Limited to 200 numbered copies signed by Baskin, of which only 100 were available for sale. Bump to the foot of the spine of the clamshell box, else a fine copy. Prospectus loosely inserted. The Hippolytos of Euripedes. Euripedes is the unsurpassed master analyst of the warring tensions in man's mind and heart. Beyond Aeschylos and Sophocles he remains for us in his passionate lines the psychologis of tragedy. In triadic interplay, Euripedes created the conceptual matrices from which have flowed our formulations of lust, chastity and guilt. Can there be a theory of guilt without Phaedra, a theory of virginity without Hippolytos? In these two, Phaedra with her consumptive desire, Hippolytos with his ravaging purity, Euripedes in the dawn of western literature wrought archetypal figures of endless life. The Gehenna Press has embodied the monumentality of this tragedy in a splendid and austere new translation, of supreme sensitivity and strength, by Robert Bagg the poet and classicist. Mr. Bagg taught at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Ten etchings by Leonard Baskin confront the characters and their torments. Aphrodite is here and Theseus, Diana and Phaedra wrapped into cloaks of shame. All probe to the marrow of the play's meanings. Printed in the beautiful and classic Centaur type, the book is a folio. The paper is Amalfi hand made in Italy before the second world war and husbanded by the press for a book worthy of its use. The etchings are of course printed from the copper-plates. Harold McGrath was the pressman. marbled boards and leather spine in marbled clamshell case
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Euripides. Hippolytos. Gehenna Press, Northampton, MA, 1969.
Price: US$1553.00 + shipping
Description: Folio. (70)pp. From an edition of 200 copies, this is an out-of-series printer's copy inscribed by Leonard Baskin to Arno Werner, who bound the book. One of the major productions of Baskin's Gehenna Press. Illustrated with ten etchings by Baskin, nine of which are signed by him, and one that is inscribed "Werner" in Baskin's hand. Signed plates are not noted in the Brook bibliography. Bound in morocco-backed marbled boards, the suite of etchings is housed in a chemise of marbled boards, and the two laid into a box of morocco-backed marbled boards. Foxing to plates and to the inside of their chemise, folding case shows some light wear to bottom edge, and minor rubbing to box extremities. A fine copy with notable provenance. (Brook 62).
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.