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Price: US$82.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No 548/975 copies. 26 x 30 cm. Sewn blue-grey wrappers with printed label. In a cardboard portfolio with light edge wear and faded wrappers. Six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on hand-made paper and tissues. This book was designed, illustrated and printed by Baskin. Portofolio in good condition. Softcover, (not the cover cardboard of portofolio), texts and engravings with tissues in very good condition. Internally fresh.
Seller: abibliodocs, Montréal, QC, Canada
Hart, Crane. Voyages: Six Poems by Hart Crane. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1957.
Price: US$130.88 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Oblong 8vo (250 x 295mm). 13pp. Sewn booklet in Unevenly and heavily sunned pale blue folder with edge wear. Illustrated with wood engravings by Baskin and signed by Baskin in an edition of 1000 copies, this being No. 285. Done at the Gehenna Press for the Museum of Modern Art. A good copy only.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$219.78 + shipping
Description: New York, Museum of Modern Art, printed at the Gehenna Press, 1957. 16 S. Mit Holzschnittillustrationen. Druck in Rot und Schwarz tls. auf Bütten, tls. auf Japanpapier (eine Doppeltafel gefaltet). 24,5 cm x 28,5 cm. OBrosch mit Kordelheftung und zweifarb. Deckelschildchen. Beiliegend: Original-Flügelmappe (dieser defekt u. außen lichtspurig) in 3 losen Teilen. Limitierte Auflage von 975 handnum. Exemplaren, SIGNIERT von Leonard Baskin. - Hart Crane (1899-1932), amerikanischer Dichter. Leonard Baskin (1922-2000), amerikanischer Bildhauer, Zeichner und Grafiker, zugleich Gründer der Gehenna Press eines der ersten u. bedeutendsten Kunstpressen der Welt. - Vorderdeckel mit wenigen kl. Tuschsprenkeln, sonst gut und sauber
Seller: Antiquariat Reinhold Pabel, Hamburg, Germany
Price: US$230.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Oblong quarto. Blue stitched wraps with a printed label to cover, enclosed within a folding portfolio. Condition: Very good, with just a faint hint of wear to cover edges. The folding portfolio is in fair/poor condition, with quite heavy wear to the edges and spine, the edge of which is split with some peeling of paper away from the spine, general sunning to edges and a small watersplash mark to the lower corner of front cover (see image). However, it has served its purpose, protecting the contents well. The second in a series of limited editions published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and under the direction of Monroe Wheeler, this book was designed, illustrated and printed by Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) at The Gehenna Press, Northampton, Massachusetts (the Gehenna Press was founded by Baskin). The edition was limited to 975 numbered copies, all signed by Baskin, this is number 327. (There were also 25 lettered review copies). The poems by Hart Crane were reprinted by permission of the Liveright Publishing Corporation from "Collected Poems of Hart Crane". The illustrations were printed from six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on Amalfi Italian hand-made paper and on Moriki and Mending Tissue, both hand-made in Japan.
Seller: Karen Jakobsen (Member of the PBFA), Sturminster Newton, United Kingdom
(BASKIN, Leonard) Hart Crane. Voyages: Six Poems. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1957.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited edition. Designed, illustrated and printed by Leonard Baskin at The Gehenna Press. Oblong quarto. Sewn blue wrappers with printed label. Faintly worn wraps, still fine in a very good cardboard portfolio with light edgewear and uneven toning. Copy number 396 of 975 numbered copies, Signed by Baskin. "The illustrations have been printed from six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on Amalfi Italian hand-made paper and on Moriki and Mending Tissue, both hand-made in Japan."
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$257.25 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [28] p., 2 leaves of tissue plates: six wood engravings and one woodcut; 26 x 29 cm. Stitched blue-grey wrappers with label printed in red and black. Within original portfolio covered in the same glue-grey paper with matching printed label on the front and a spine label printed in red. Designed, illustrated, and printed by Leonard Baskin at the Gehenna Press, Nov. 1957. Handprinted in Perpetua type. "The illustrations have been printed from six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on Amalfi Italian hand-made paper and on Moriki and Mending Tissue, both hand-made in Japan." This is no. 635 of a limited edition of 975 copies, from an edition of 1000; signed by Leonard Baskin. It was honored as one of the "Fifty Books of the Year 1957" by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Book is in Near Fine Condition: front wrapper lightly creased from upper corner along fore-edge; clean and crisp. Portfolio is in Good Condition: both front sections are starting to separate along the front joints from the tail; color is faded; lacking small part of spine label; front label is complete and bright.
Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$269.00 + shipping
Description: Oblong 8vo, the second in a series of limited editions published by The Museum of Modern Art under the direction of Monroe Wheeler, designed, illustrated and printed by Leonard Baskin at The Gehenna Press. The illustrations have been printed from six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on Amalfi Italian hand-made paper and on Moriki and Mending Tissue, both hand-made in Japan. This is # 526 of a limited edition of 975 copies, signed and numbered by Leonard Baskin. " A fine copy hand sewn into blue wraps with paper label in an irregularly faded publisher's portfolio that shows some wear at the tips. Artist & The Book 13; Brook 11; Baskin 11. Baskin noted:" A terribly overcomplicated book, its vagaries in structure & its bizarreries of sequence reveal far more about my struggles with typography & wood engraving than about Crane . but it does startle and somewhat dazzle ."
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Baskin, Leonard. No. 661 of 975 numbered copies, signed by Baskin, from an edition of 1000. With seven wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Hart Crane and Leonard Baskin. One of a series of limited editions published by The Museum of Modern Art under the direction of Monroe Wheeler; this book was designed, illustrated and printed by Baskin at The Ghenna Press, Northampton, MA. The Perpetua type is handset, the blocks printed in black or color on Japanese hand-made papers. A superb, delicate work. Press/2/3 Original blue stitched wrappers, printed label on upper cover, a fine copy in the original folding portfolio (slightly worn and soiled) With seven wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. 1 vols. Oblong 4to No. 661 of 975 numbered copies, signed by Baskin, from an edition of 1000.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$336.00 + shipping
Description: Oblong 8vo, the second in a series of limited editions published by The Museum of Modern Art under the direction of Monroe Wheeler, designed, illustrated and printed by Leonard Baskin at The Gehenna Press. The illustrations have been printed from six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on Amalfi Italian hand-made paper and on Moriki and Mending Tissue, both hand-made in Japan. This is # 451 of a limited edition of 975 copies, signed and numbered by Leonard Baskin. " A fine copy hand sewn into blue wraps with paper label in an irregularly faded publisher's portfolio that shows some wear at the tips. Artist & The Book 13; Brook 11; Baskin 11. Baskin noted:" A terribly overcomplicated book, its vagaries in structure & its bizarreries of sequence reveal far more about my struggles with typography & wood engraving than about Crane . but it does startle and somewhat dazzle ."
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: [21]pp. Oblong small quarto. String-tied wrapper, with printed label. Illustrated. About fine in very good slipcase with moderate sunning along spine and edges. First printing in this format, illustrated with six wood-engravings and one woodcut by the printer, Leonard Baskin. From a total of one thousand copies printed at the Gehenna Press, this is one of 975 numbered copies, signed by Baskin. The second of the series of illustrated limited editions published by MOMA under the direction of Monroe Wheeler. SCHWARTZ & SCHWEIK A8. BROOK 11. BASKIN 11. ARTIST & THE BOOK 13.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: One of a series of limited editions published by The Museum of Modern Art under the direction of Monroe Wheeler. Designed, illustrated and printed by Leonard Baskin at The Gehenna Press. One of 975 numbered copies signed by Baskin. Original blue sewn wrappers with printed label on front cover, housed in the original folding portfolio. A fine copy in a portfolio which is much better than usually seen, with a sticker ghost on the front cover and a spine which is slightly browned and starting very slightly at the extremities. Baskin 11. Brook 11.
Seller: Triolet Rare Books, ABAA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
BASKIN, Leonard; Crane, Hart; LEONARD BASKIN. Voyages Six Poems.. , 1957.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: BASKIN, Leonard. Voyages Six Poems. By Hart Crane. With wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. Oblong 4to., bound in blue paper wrappers, housed in a folding slipcase with white paper title label. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1957. One of an edition limited to 975 copies designed, illustrated and printed by Leonard Baskin at the Gehenna Press, with six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on hand-made papers. Baskin's mystical woodcuts are well suited for Crane's spiritual acuity. A fine copy with the folder in good condition, which is virtually never the case. The Artist and the Book, No. 13.
Seller: Ursus Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.