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[nd]. Proof Print. Original Print. Never mounted. From the collection of Robert & Jeanne Quigley, both friends of Baskin. Robert was a superb woodworker and made woodblocks for Leonard’s prints and sculpture. Bright and clean. Two images printed on a single, folded sheet, one print b/w, one in blue, one.....
Price: $450.00
San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Portraits in homage." Tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows minimal shelf/edge wear, else bright and clean. Dark red cloth boards, gilt lettering, black endpages. Square 8vo. 219pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Signed by Baskin on the title page.
Price: $145.00
London: Leinster Fine Art, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. "To honour Leonard Baskin's First London Exhibition." Catalogue of the Baskin's first London exhibition held at the Cottage Gallery, in 1981. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Red cloth boards. Narrow 4to. 60pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 13 of 100.....
Price: $145.00
New York: Pantheon, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Preface by S. Dillon Ripley. Commentary by Jose Yglesias. Inscribed to a friend with a large full-page black ink raptor (striking image) at the ffep. Laid in color print of a similar raptor. Minimal shelf/edge wear, full-page inscription/illustration at ffep, else tight, bright.....
Price: $1,500.00
New York: Pantheon, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Preface by S. Dillon Ripley. Commentary by Jose Yglesias. Laid in color print of the DJ cover image. Minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows minor shelf/edge wear, else bright and unmarred. Beige cloth boards, gilt lettering, frontispiece. 4to. 105pp.....
Price: $200.00
New York: Pantheon, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Preface by S. Dillon Ripley. Commentary by Jose Yglesias. Lacking laid in color print of the DJ cover image. Minimal shelf/edge wear, ffep clipped, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows minor shelf/edge wear, else bright and unmarred. Beige cloth boards, gilt lettering.....
Price: $45.00
Portland, ME: Leonard Baskin, 1958. 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 copy appears to be outside.....
Price: $995.00
Leeds, MA: Gehenna Press, 1995. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Herman Zapf, the celebrated type designer and typographer has designed a new Civilite typeface following Granjon's general lineaments, but its twisting and turning permutations are redolent of Zapf's genius..." (prospectus) Pastepaper and binding by Claudia Cohen. One of 100 copies printed upon.....
Price: $950.00
New York: Viking Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. DJ shows minor shelf/edge wear, small stain at rear, else bright. Quarterbound, green cloth spine, burnt umber paper boards, gilt lettering, blue endpages. 4to. np. Illus. (color plates). Signed by the artist at the ffep.
Price: $100.00
New York: Viking Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, two small closed tears at top edge, else bright. Quarterbound, green cloth spine, burnt umber paper boards, gilt lettering, blue endpages. 4to. np. Illus. (color plates). Signed by the artist at the ffep.....
Price: $100.00
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
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