Mission, BC: Barbarian Press, 1994. Small quarto. (384)pp. From an edition of 430 copies, this is one of 250 in quarter cloth with patterned paper covers. Essays on wood engraving in Canada and in the USA are followed by approximately 150 examples of the artists' work. Text, including biographical notes..... More
Mission, BC: Barbarian Press, 1994. Small quarto. (384)pp. From an edition of 430 copies, this is one of 250 in quarter cloth with patterned paper covers. Essays on wood engraving in Canada and in the USA are followed by approximately 150 examples of the artists' work. Text, including biographical notes..... More
Mission, British Columbia: Barbarian Press, 2017. 24mo. (79)pp., + six loose plates. One of 60 deluxe copies. Engravings by John Lawrence printed largely from wood, with some detailed spots in larger engravings from polymer plates, all in the Press' customary assortment of bright colors. Texts from over forty songs and..... More
1934, 1950. (1)ff. autograph letter, dated July 25th, 1934. A letter from J. M. Barrie to William Maldon "Bill" Woodfull, the Australian cricketer who captained both the Victoria and Australia cricket teams. Barrie comments on the fourth game of the 1934 Ashes series, in which Australia played against England, saying..... More
Brooklyn: David Barthold, 2020. Broadside. One of fifty copies, signed by the artist, David Barthold. Screenprint of Barthold’s portrait of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In 2020, Barthold’s portraits of Ginsburg, George Floyd, whose death at the hands of police in May accelerated the Black Lives Matter movement, and..... More
London: Basilisk Press, 1979. Quarto. 180pp., + (10)ff. From an edition of 500 copies, this is one of twenty-five with ten original wood engravings bound-in subsequent to the text, five of which are signed by the book's illustrator, Edward Gordon Craig. For decades, Craig nurtured an interest in Daniel Defoe's..... More
1973. Lithographic print, 22 inches tall by 16 inches wide, printed on Arches paper. One of fifty, signed by the artist. Leonard Baskin was an American artist, sculptor, and printmaker. He founded the Gehenna Press while still a student at Yale, and he taught at Smith College in Massachusetts from..... More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1969. Folio. (70)pp. From an edition of 200 copies, this is an out-of-series printer's copy inscribed by Leonard Baskin to Arno Werner, who bound the book. One of the major productions of Baskin's Gehenna Press. Illustrated with ten etchings by Baskin, nine of which are signed..... More
(Rockport, ME): Gehenna Press, 1998. Folio. (65)pp. From an edition of fifty, this is one of ten deluxe copies, accompanied by a page of Hecht's manuscript, three watercolor drawings by Baskin, one of the original woodcut blocks, and a suite of woodcuts printed in black with several hand-colored by Baskin..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1978. Oblong quarto. (63)pp. First trade edition. Inscribed by Leonard Baskin, whose stylized drawings provide a dramatic illustration of Hughes's poem sequence. The effect, as the jacket copy rightly describes it, is a "haunting combination of word and image." Baskin, the renowned sculptor, artist, and founder..... More
(Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1969). Octavo. 25ff., housed in paper wrapper. One of 250 copies. With 21 woodblock illustrations of creatures fantastic and familiar printed in a variety of colors on nine different oriental papers, each print signed by the artist, Wang Hui-Ming. Box shows some rubbing, but sheets all pristine..... More
(Northampton, MA): Gehenna Press, 1958. Small quarto. (12)pp. One of 100 copies. Signed by George Lockwood, who contributed the wood-engraved frontispiece. Leyda's poem about Emily Dickinson's Amherst, Massachusetts home is interspersed with the words from the deed, which are printed in red. An uncommon Gehenna title, this copy shows some..... More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1963. Elephant folio. (24)pp. One of 150 copies, signed by the illustrator, Rico Lebrun, and by the engraver, Leonard Baskin, below the colophon and on the prints. Lebrun's illustrations evoke the raw emotion and bare-bones humanity and animality of Melville's tale. Pages held loose in unbound..... More
(Leeds, MA): Gehenna Press, 1989. Quarto. (13)pp, (25)ff. One of thirty-eight copies. A collection of etchings of cats by the Italian artist Anna Maria Bartolini, some of which are printed on pink mulberry paper and tipped in. All are signed by the artist in graphite. Some of the cats are..... More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1973. Folio. (68)ff. Illustrated with twelve full-page etchings and sixteen wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. According to the Gehenna Press bibliography, from a planned edition of 400, including 150 deluxe copies with extra suites and 250 regular copies, only the latter regular edition copies were ever..... More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1970. Small octavo. (28)pp. One of fifty copies, signed by the artist, Leonard Baskin. Illustrated with a frontispiece etched portrait of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, by Baskin and four additional etchings that accompany Tennyson's poem. The title is cut in wood and printed in red from the..... More
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1942. Large octavo. xxx, 341pp. One of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator, Thomas Hart Benton. A follow-up to the 1939 publication of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, also illustrated by Benton, whom the publisher George Macy wrote "was born for the purpose of illustrating..... More
Nevada City, CA: Berliner, Harold, 1988. Quarto. 105pp. One of 150 copies. This copy inscribed by the printer to wood engraver John DePol, with his bookplate and signature to front paste-down. Design and frontispiece illustration by Lederer. Translated by C. F. MacIntyre and printed in French and English, on opposing..... More
New York: David Bryce & Son / Frederick A. Stokes, 1896. 876pp. First edition, American issue, of the smallest complete Bible in the world, first published by Bryce in 1896, and later under various imprints. With full-page illustrations of biblical scenes. Light rubbing and toning to spine, else a near..... More
Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, (1901). 876pp. With 28 line illustrations. A later issue of the first complete miniature Bible, which was originally published in 1896, and issued with various imprints. Between the Old and New Testaments are the Shakespeare Family records, by W. S. Brassington, a rare feature of..... More
Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, 1896. 876pp. First edition of the smallest complete Bible in the world, jointly issued with Henry Frowde of London. With full-page illustrations of biblical scenes. Very fine in full navy leather with spine title in gilt, and with purple ribbon. All edges red. (Garbett, p...... More
Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, 1896. 876pp. First edition of the smallest complete Bible in the world, jointly issued with Henry Frowde of London. With full-page illustrations of biblical scenes. Inserted here is the rare Burns Family Register before the Book of Matthew. Very fine in full navy pebbled leather..... More
Minneapolis: Bieler Press, 1985. Octavo. (13)ff. One of 200 copies. Signed by the author. Drawing of a pine tree on the title page. Evocative poetry from Hart, bound in gray wrappers. Fine. Prospectus laid in. More
Minneapolis: Bieler Press, 1985. Octavo. 67pp. One of 150 copies, signed by the author. Trace rubbing to corners, else near fine in patterned blue paper backed in navy cloth. Prospectus laid in. More
Richard Bigus, 1978. Broadside measuring 21 3/8 by 14 3/4 inches. From an edition of 200 copies, this is a proof copy signed by Richard Bigus. Designed and printed by Bigus in two colors. Fine. More
