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
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: $125.00
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, 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. Bound in green cloth in color with L.B. initials on cover, pictorial dust jacket in good condition with some.....
Price: $150.00
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
New York: Printed at the Spiral Press, 1957. First Edition. Many of these imprints included the publisher's printed statement (on first leaf): "At Christmas 1957 this poem brings you the warmest Holiday greetings and good wishes..." This particular imprint does not have that statement, yet was the same design for.....
Price: $200.00
Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1970. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Three hundred copies were printed at The Gehenna Press, Northampton, Massachusetts during the summer of 1970. The type is Baskerville monotype, the paper Monadnock WvG. The drawings were made by Leonard Baskin. Copies 1 to 100 carry an additional etched portrait.....
Price: $450.00
Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1958. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. "Three hundred copies of this book have been printed at the Gehenna Press in Northampton, Mass. The engravings have been printed from the original blocks. This is copy 58." Signed by both author and artist. Minor shelf/edge wear, small closed.....
Price: $350.00
London: Faber & Faber/John Roberts Press, 1973. Limited Edition. Hardcover. The Crow poems published here include three new poems not previously published in other Faber editions. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Slipcase shows minor shelf/edge wear, small pull, else tight and clean. Quarterbound, black coated cloth spine, dark grey cloth beveled.....
Price: $1,250.00
London: Rainbow Press, 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Designed and printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampart Lions Press (Cambridge) and hand-set in F. Warde's Arrighi-Vienza type. Printed on Barcham Green Canterbury hand-made paper. A very handsome copy. Minor toning to vellum, small area of erasure at ffep, else tight, bright.....
Price: $950.00
Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1964. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 20 loose portraits, hand-printed on blue Fabriano, each etching signed by the artist. Baskin 36. Ownership plate at front pastedown, else tight, bright and unmarred. Loose signatures in full brown leather over board portfolio, gilt lettering; quarterbound archival traycase, brown leather.....
Price: $750.00