New York: Viking Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. A companion volume to his Caldecott Honor Book "Hosie 's Alphabet," includes Baskin's illustrations of birds with poetic verse. Tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, two small closed tears at top rear. Bound in green cloth in color with.....
Price: $150.00
allas and Northampton: The Bridwell Library & The Gehenna Press, 1992. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. The Gehenna Press was established in 1942 by sculptor and graphic artist Leonard Baskin [1922-2000]. Gehenna Press published approximately 200 books in nearly 60 years, winding up operation shortly after Baskin's death in 2000. Exhibition.....
Price: $75.00
Lurey, Devon: Gehenna Press, 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. ”Very few copies were available; most of the edition remains unissued" (The Gehenna Press #81). According to the colophon 110 copies were printed numbered 1–89, and A to U. The 21 lettered copies have an extra impression of the colored wood engraving.....
Price: $2,500.00
Lurey, Devon: Gehenna Press, 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. ”Very few copies were available; most of the edition remains unissued" (The Gehenna Press #81). According to the colophon 110 copies were printed numbered 1–89, and A to U. The 21 lettered copies have an extra impression of the colored wood engraving.....
Price: $2,500.00
London: Editions Medicina Rara/Curwen Press, 1972. Baskin, Leonard. Limited Edition. Loose Plates in Portfolio. An exceptional set of prints reproducing Baskin's pen and ink drawings and printed on Bugra laid paper [showing the private watermark of Editions Medicina Rara [two snakes wrapped around a tree]. Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) was a......
Price: $425.00
Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1962/1965. Unique. Hardcover. "This is the first full-scale exhibition of the work of a major contemporary American artist to be held in the seventy-year history of the Bowdoin College Museum Of Art". Includes an original woodblock print ""Hendrick Goltzius,"found here signed by the.....
Price: $550.00
Portland, ME: Wolfe Editions, nd [circa 1990]. Limited Edition. Print. "Tobias and the Angel" is included in the "complete graphic works of Leonard Baskin". (Fern & O'Sullivan, 367) There were at least three printings of this engraving, including one of 300 copies, another of 200 copies. This particular copy is.....
Price: $750.00
Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1965. First Edition. Original Wraps. Preface by Martin S. Sadik. A relatively significant exhibition catalogue. Notable as Leonard Baskin designed the volume. Minor shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. Cream paper wraps, black ink lettering, red ink decorative element, b/w pictorial element.....
Price: $45.00
Napoli, Italy: Luigi Chiurazzi, 1892. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Fold-out score for: Inno Colombiano. A handsome copy of this very scare volume. Minor shelf/edge wear, minor toning/soiling, small pull in the fold-out score, catalogue description tipped in at ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Halfbound, brown pebbled cloth spine and.....
Price: $145.00
Bruxelles: G.Van Oest, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Text in French. Widely considered the catalog raisonne for Bruegel's prints. 278 works illustrated and catalogued. Light shelf/edge wear, minor rubbing at the spine, tips through, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Halfbound, brown leather spine and tips, gilt lettering and decorative elements, marbled.....
Price: $75.00
Indonesia: Early to mid-20th century. Unique. Hardcover. The 'pustaha' [named by the Batak people of interior province of northern Sumatra, Indonesia] are manuscript books constructed and composed by their "datu" or magicians and healers. Origins of the pustaha remain somewhat clouded to non-indigenous research, although, records of provenance date to.....
Price: $1,250.00
New York & Amsterdam: Johnson Reprint Company/ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1973. Fascimile/Limited Edition. Hardcover. A handsome facsimile of the mid-1800s original...beautifully reproduced. Tight, bright, and unmarred; acetate DJ has closed tear, else unmarred. Mustard yellow cloth, gilt lettering. fo. 12pp plus np plates (40 plates plus a page of text.....
Price: $325.00
Portsmouth, NH: Peter E. Randall Publisher, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the Author. A very handsome copy of this rather uncommon and much sought after volume. Signed by author, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows minor shelf/edge wear, else bright and clean. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering and.....
Price: $145.00
Portland, ME: Wolfe Editions, 1998. First Edition/Limited Edition. Hardcover. Letterpress printed by David Wolfe. An exceptional production piece, with gilt onlay, cut-aways and burn-throughs. Very complex to print and bind. A pristine copy. Tight, bright and unmarred. Quarterbound, black cloth spine, mustard paper boards, paper onlay, black ink lettering and.....
Price: $450.00
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merill Company, 1903. Later Edition. Hardcover. With eight color plates and black and white illustrations throughout. Appears to be fourth/fifth edition, second state. A rather nice copy of this early edition. Light shelf/edge wear, spine lightly sun touched, head and heel rumpled, rear board shows unusual color shift.....
Price: $250.00
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1926. First Edition. Original Wraps. “A well-annotated and well-illustrated historical catalogue, focusing primarily on European calculating machines and instruments from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. . . . This remained the most useful and informative exhibition catalogue of early calculating instruments through the.....
Price: $345.00
London: Houlston and Wright, 1865. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Front leather gilt embossed with crest of Abington House, Northampton School. Prize inscription. Light shelf/edge wear, hint of foxing at end pages, light toning at board edges, else tight, bright and unmarred. Full red leather, 5 raised bands, gilt lettering and.....
Price: $245.00
London: Arc Editions, 2014. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Cash Fans is not just the story of money, but universal desire. Inspired by the story of a gang of car thieves who were caught posing with their cash on the internet: in one photo a boy holds a cash sandwich, his face.....
Price: $1,250.00
London: ARC Artists Editions, 2013. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Simple, clean, elegant...beautifully structured prose, overprinted for emphasis, a touch of concrete reductionism. Brilliant. "Victoria Bean’s work features self-generated prose and text and has been shown in a number of galleries including the Tate. Her work is about language and reduction. Saying.....
Price: $1,500.00
London: Hayward Publishing, 2016. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. "This sumptuously designed, colourful and beguiling anthology begins with a compendium of quotations on the nature of concrete poetry from poets past and present. The Bolivian poet, Eugen Gomringer, sums up the spirit of the early concrete movement: ‘The purpose of reduced.....
Price: $3,000.00
Portland, ME: Brown Thurston, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Though the boards show a bit of age/wear, the textblock is extremely nice and both the fold-out elements (advert for Bailey & Noyes Booksellers and map) are in Fine condition. Map ("Plan of Portland - 1863") is particularly lovely, being in "blueprint".....
Price: $175.00
Dublin: The Salvage Press, 2015. Limited Edition. "No trace anywhere of life, you say, pah, no difficulty there, imagination not dead yet, yes, dead, good, imagination dead imagine... So begins Beckett’s ‘Imagination Dead Imagine’, a short prose text first published in French in Les Lettres nouvelles in 1965. Its first.....
Price: $2,500.00
Paris: Piazza, [circa 1920]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Ownership inscription at ffep indicating the owner was at Vassar College. Overall, a handsome little copy. Light shelf/edge wear, light wear at joints and head, spine toned, ownership inscription at ffep, else tight, bright, and unmmarred. Quarterbound, red leather spine, five raised.....
Price: $75.00
New York: J.B. Ford and Company, 1874. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Overall, a very presentable copy of this signficant history. Light shelf/edge wear, spine lightly sunned, gift inscription on ffep, small private library plate on front pastedown, tear at rfep and 2pp of ads with large chip missing, else tight.....
Price: $35.00
Mt. Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper, 1965. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Penciled bookseller notation on ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Glassine dustjacket has several small tears and chips on spine. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt initials and gilt lettering on spine. Original glassine dustjacket. 12mo. 68pp. Red ink frontispiece. Limited edition of.....
Price: $75.00