New York: Delphic Arts, 1962. Limited Edition. Cased Loose Sheets. Created for Delphic Arts, this portfolio consists of 60 offset lithographs and 3 original etchings (with a title page, text, and colophon). Signed by the artist. A handsome, as new, set. Bright and clean. Drop-spine case tight and clean (and.....
Price: $2,500.00
New York: Delacorte Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. A handsome copy of a rather uncommon work. Ownership label at ffep, minimial shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, small closed tear at top rear, hint of sun at spine, else bright and clean. Black cloth.....
Price: $145.00
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Nocturnal animals with accompanying text. Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) was a renowned artist (sculptor, illustrator, printer, and graphic artist), writer, teacher and general polymath. Touch of sun at spine, else tight, bright, and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear/sunning, else bright and.....
Price: $145.00
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Nocturnal animals with accompanying text. Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) was a renowned artist (sculptor, illustrator, printer, and graphic artist), writer, teacher and general polymath. Minor shelf/edge wear, touch of sun at the spine, gift inscription at ffep, else tight, bright, and unmarred;.....
Price: $125.00
New York: Knopf, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Twenty dragons drawn from various folktales and mythologies, with short histories facing each illustration. Tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows light shelf/edge wear. Purple paper boards, yellow cloth spine, gilt lettering, in blind decorative element at front board, red endpages. 4to. np. Illus.....
Price: $100.00
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "450 copies of this book were printed on various interesting papers during the autumn of 1976. The pressman was Harold McGrath." Bound by Gray Parrot. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Marbled paper boards, black leather spine label, gilt lettering. 4to. np. Illus. (b/w.....
Price: $650.00
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "450 copies of this book were printed on various interesting papers during the autumn of 1976. The pressman was Harold McGrath." Bound by Gray Parrot. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Marbled paper boards, black leather spine label, gilt lettering. 4to. np. Illus. (b/w.....
Price: $650.00
Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Preface by Archibald Macleish. Photographs by Hyman Edelstein. Tipped in colophon. Tight, bright, and unmarred; slipcase shows minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight and unmarred. Quarterbound, brown paper boards, cream cloth spine. 8vo. np. Illus. (b/w plates). Limited edition of 200.....
Price: $155.00
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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