[Rarebooks] FS: Leonard Baskin and the Gehenna Press

[Nina W. Matheson]

We are pleased to offer for consideration the following choice items :

Laurana, Francesco.   Four portrait busts by Francesco Laurana. Photographs 
by Clarence Kennedy with an introductory biographical essay by Ruth 
Wedgwood Kennedy.  [Northampton, Massachusetts] The Gehenna Press, 1962. 
Original quarter imitation vellum and gray paper boards. Fine in glassine 
dust jacket with several tears. One of 500 numbered copies. The first 
volume in the Gehenna Essays in Art series. The Gehenna Press, the work of 
fifty years 29(30).  $ 
250.00<http://www.ilabdatabase.com/member/currency.php3?membernr=1839&custnr=&P=25000&C=USD> 
no. 66824

Hatch, Benton L.   A check list of the publications of Thomas Bird Mosher 
of Portland Maine, MDCCCXCI-MDCCCCXXIII.  [n.p.] Gehenna Press for the 
University of Massachusetts Press, 1966. Original quarter cloth and paper 
boards, printed paper label on the backstrip. Very fine in original box. 
One of 500 numbered copies. Compiled and edited by Benton L. Hatch and with 
a biographical ess ay by Ray Nash. Tipped-in illustrations. The Gehenna 
Press, the work of fifty years 48. Tanselle / Basic Collection.   $ 250.00 
no. 62308

Crane, Hart.   Voyages: six poems from White buildings by Hart Crane with 
wood engravings by Leonard Baskin.  New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1957. 
Fine in sewn blue wrappers, printed paper label on the front wrapper. In 
publisher's blue folding case, printed paper labels on the front cover and 
spine. The case with a short split at the foot of th e left fold joint and 
the top of the right fold,. the cover label missing a small piece, two 1 
1/2 inch scratches at the foot of the front cover. The case is otherwise 
near fine. Designed, illustrate d and printed by Leonard Baskin at The 
Gehenna Press. One of 975 numbered copies signed by Baskin. The Gehenna 
Press, the Work of Fifty Years item 11.  $ 
300.00<http://www.ilabdatabase.com/member/currency.php3?membernr=1839&custnr=&P=30000&C=USD> 
no. 65083

Bowdoin College Museum of Art.   Leonard Baskin.  [Brunswick, Maine] 1962. 
Original printed wrappers. White wrappers lightly soiled, otherwise fine. 
Catalog designed by Leonard Baskin. Not paginated. Illustrated. Includes a 
full-page plate of Hendrick Goltzius printed from the block at the Gehenna 
Press. The print is signed with Baskin's last name.  $ 
75.00<http://www.ilabdatabase.com/member/currency.php3?membernr=1839&custnr=&P=7500&C=USD> 
no. 66493

Bowdoin College Museum of Art.   Leonard Baskin.  [Brunswick, Maine] 1962. 
Original printed wrappers. White wrappers lightly soiled, otherwise fine. 
Catalog designed by Leonard Baskin. Inscribed by Baskin to Agnes Mongan on 
the half-title: "for Agnes a memorable opening / Leonard / O. / 12. / 
1962". Not paginated. Illustrated. Includes a full-page plate of Hendrick 
Goltzius printed from the block at the Gehenna Press. The print is signed 
with Baskin's last name.  $ 
100.00<http://www.ilabdatabase.com/member/currency.php3?membernr=1839&custnr=&P=10000&C=USD> 
no. 66494

Browne, Thomas Of garlands and coronary or garland plants: Thomas Browne to 
John Evelyn Esq., F.R.S.  [Northampton, Massachusetts, printed for the 
Smith College Museum of Art at the Gehenna Press, 1962]. Original printed 
wrappers. Fine. Keepsake for the Smith College Museum of Art. One of 500 
copies. The Gehenna Press, the work of fifty years 31. This copy is a 
variant not noted in the bibliography. The bibliography describes copies 
noting that the College has permitted the Gehenna Press to overprint 250 
copies, this information mounted on the initial blank. This copy has a slip 
printed by the Gehenna Press with this information laid in, but no printing 
on the "initial blank".
$ 
50.00<http://www.ilabdatabase.com/member/currency.php3?membernr=1839&custnr=&P=5000&C=USD> 
no. 66511

Browne, Thomas.   Of garlands and coronary or garland plants: Thomas Browne 
to John Evelyn Esq., F.R.S.  [Northampton, Massachusetts, printed for the 
Smith College Museum of Art at the Gehenna Press, 1962]. Original printed 
wrappers. Fine. Keepsake for the Smith College Museum of Art. One of 500 
copies. The Gehenna Press, the Work of Fifty Years 31.  $ 
75.00<http://www.ilabdatabase.com/member/currency.php3?membernr=1839&custnr=&P=7500&C=USD> 
no. 66512

Held, Julius S.   Rembrandt and the book of Tobit.  [Northampton, 
Massachusetts, The Gehenna Press] 1964. Original quarter parchment and 
green paper boards. Fine. One of 1,000 copies. Brook / The Gehenna Press, 
the work of fifty years 41. [36] pp., followed by 50 numbered plates. 
Errata slip tipped to p. [35].  $ 
60.00<http://www.ilabdatabase.com/member/currency.php3?membernr=1839&custnr=&P=6000&C=USD> 
no. 66734

Halley, Anne.   Between wars and other poems.  [Northampton, Massachusetts] 
The Gehenna Press, 1965. Text block lightly bumped at the top corner, else 
fine, without dust jacket. First edition. Drawings by Leonard Baskin. One 
of 500 numbered copies. The Gehenna Press, the work of fifty years 43.  $ 
30.00<http://www.ilabdatabase.com/member/currency.php3?membernr=1839&custnr=&P=3000&C=USD> 
no. 70240

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