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Baskin, Leonard. To Colour Thought. [Yale University Library], New Haven, 1967.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Small 4to. 27 pp + 10 illustrated plates. Brown paper-covered boards backed in brown Morocco, gilt titling to spine. Small (appx 1 cm) stain to front board at spine foot, spine ends gently pushed, otherwise near fine. Top edge gilt, somewhat brassy, bottom and fore edge deckled. Limited to 300 copies, this is number 26. Lecture originally delivered on the occasion of the opening of the Graphic Arts Collection in the Yale University Library on May 9, 1966. Printed and set in Dante type by Officina Bodoni in Verona, with illustrations done at the Meriden Gravure company in Meriden, CT. Foreword by James Tanis, University Librarian.
Seller: Small Volume Books, Providence, RI, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover with gray paper board slipcase. 8vo (9.5" x 6.25"), half brown morocco, gray paper over boards, 28 pp. Previous owner bookplate on front paste-down. CONDITION: Near fine, light rubbing at spine-edges; slipcase fine. Limited to 300 copies. This copy number 159. Color frontis. after William Blake.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Baskin, Leonard.. Colour of Thought.. New Haven; Yale University Press, 1967., 1967.
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Description: FIRST LIMITED EDITION. Tall octavo, pp. 27, [5]. With 5 illustrated plates, including Blake colour frontispiece. Bound in quarter brown morocco and grey card over boards, with gilt spine titles. Housed in a matching grey slipcase. An exceptionally clean, bright, neat copy with boards clean and gilt bright, a miniscule chip to lower spine tip otherwise Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. No. 41 of only 300 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni in Dante type. Leonard Baskin's pioneering lecture on the book as a visual object, for the opening of the department of Printing and Graphic Arts Collection in Yale University Library.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
Price: US$220.41 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Prolusione in lingua inglese tenuta nella biblioteca universitaria di Yale, New Haven; con una fototipia a colori e 9 illustrazioni stampate in offset da Meriden Gravure Company, Connecticut e una plaquette calligrafica in rosso di Crimilda Pontes. Tiratura di 300 esemplari (1-300) su carta a mano Cernobbio (Ventura). (Nostro n° 64). Carattere Dante corpo 8, 10, 11 e 12 tondo e corsivo, titolo e iniziale in rosso. Schmoller, 150 24g.
Seller: La carta bianca studio bibliografico, Venezia, VE, Italy
BASKIN, Leonard. TO COLOR THOUGHT. New Haven, 1967.
Price: US$224.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 32. Bound in leather backed boards, in publisher's plain box. A fine copy. One of 300 numbered copies. Illustrated. Set in Giovanni Mardersteig's Dante Type and printed on a hand press by Officina Bodoni in Verona, Itlay. The calligraphic half-title has been designed by Crimilda Pontes. The illustrations were printed in collotype and offset by Meridan Gravure. This lecture was originally delivered on the occasion of the opening of the Graphic Arts Collection in the Yale University Library on May 9, 1966.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Baskin, Leonard. To colour thought. [Officina Bodoni for Yale University Library], New Haven, 1967.
Price: US$437.50 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 300 copies (this, no. 125), 8vo, pp. 27, [5]; color frontispiece after William Blake, 9 illustrations on rectos and versos of 8 plates; reproductions in collotype and offset by Meriden Gravure; fine copy in original brown morocco-backed tan paper-covered boards. From the library of Kim Merker. Printed in Verona at the Officina Bodoni. Mardersteig 150.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$440.83 + shipping
Description: In-8° (mm 240x153), Pagine 32 con 1 fototipia a colori e 9 ill. stampate in off-set da Meriden Gravure Company. Legatura in mezzo marocchino edit., titolo oro al dorso, cust. in cart. Buon esemplare. 300 esemplari numerati su carta a mano Cernobbio, con carattere Dante, di cui 10 esemplari in tutto marocchino. Esemplare N.283. Pubblicato in occasione della apertura della Graphics Arts Collection alla Yale University, nel maggio del 1966.
Seller: Libreria Antiquaria Gonnelli, Firenze, FI, Italy
Baskin Leonard. To Colour Thought". New Haven-MCMLXVII.. Verona, 1967.
Price: US$440.83 + shipping
Description: In-8° (mm 240x153), Pagine 32 con 1 fototipia a colori e 9 ill. stampate in off-set da Meriden Gravure Company. Legatura in mezzo marocchino edit., titolo oro al dorso, cust. in cart. Buon esemplare. 300 esemplari numerati su carta a mano Cernobbio, con carattere Dante, di cui 10 esemplari in tutto marocchino. Esemplare N.157. Pubblicato in occasione della apertura della Graphics Arts Collection alla Yale University, nel maggio del 1966.
Seller: Libreria Antiquaria Gonnelli, Firenze, FI, Italy
Leonard Baskin. To Colour Thought. New Haven (Yale University Library), 1967.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition in fine condition with slipcase in vg/nf condition; SIGNED; #75 of 300 copies; text and colored illustrations clean and crisp throughout
Seller: Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Baskin, Leonard. To Colour Thought. Officina Bodoni for Yale University, New Haven, 1967.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, one of 300 copies. Color frontispiece after Blake, reproductions in collotye and offset by Meriden Gravure. 1 vols. 8vo. Original quarter brown levant moroco and grey paper boards. Near fine Color frontispiece after Blake, reproductions in collotye and offset by Meriden Gravure. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Baskin, Leonard. To Colour Thought. Officina Bodoni for Yale University, New Haven, 1967.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, no. 3 of 10 copies. Color frontispiece after Blake, reproductions in collotye and offset by Meriden Gravure. 27, [5]pp. 1 vols. 8vo. ONE OF 10 COPIES. Inscribed on the colophon page to James Tanis and with calligraphed card laid in "For James Tanis, with apprecition from the Graphic Arts Collection. Yale University Library" Bouund in full orange morocco. Very fine in slipcae Color frontispiece after Blake, reproductions in collotye and offset by Meriden Gravure. 27, [5]pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.