Item Details
Hermaika: Twenty Eight Drawings & a Woodcut [Association Copy].
[Leeds, MA]: Eremite Press, 1986. Limited Edition. Hardcover. While noted in Baskin's hand as "Printers Copy", the woodcut indicates it is 60/75, suggesting that it had been part of the original edition, before it was presented. Inscribed with a large sketch of an owl's head at the colophon. "For Jeanne & Robert with love and affection from Lisa & Leonard // 1991". Robert was the woodworker who made the blocks which Baskin then carved.
"Seventy Five copies of Hermaika were printed during the summer of 1986. The work was achieved photo-lithographically by Gail Alt & Roberta Bannister at the Oxbow Press, Amherst. The woodcut was printed from the block by Daniel Keleher at the Wild Carrot Letterpress, Hadley. The Binding was executed by David Bourbeau, Easthampton. [Colophon] "In ancient Greece boundaries were demarked by stone shafts. Hermes was the god of boundaries. ... Hermaika denotes a collection or a gathering of herms: thus the following designs are a general configuration of the classic herm. L.B." (Preface). A handsome copy. [The Gehenna Press: The Work of Fifty Years: 1942-1992, #85]. Fine in Near Fine Drop-spine Box. Tight, bright, and unmarred; drop-spine box shows minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Orange hand-made paper covered flex boards; gilt lettering. Small fo. np [[4] leaves with 29 unnumbered plates]. Illus. (b/w; colored). Limited numbered edition, this being "Printers Copy" of the full run of 75 copies. Inscribed by Baskin with large illustration by his hand. Item #10719
Price: $3,500.00