Gehenna press (47 Ergebnisse)

First edition. 4to. 237 pp. Light ripple to lower edge of front cover, else near fine in illustrated wrappers.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. [12] pp., illustrated, 4to (12.25 x 8.5 in.), string-tied wheat-colored self wrapper. A substantial prospectus that includes three full-page illustrations (shown in actual size). A well-preserved copy, with a couple of short faint creases and a tiny nick at the right margin.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Centaur type, printed on Nideggen paper. One of 400 copies signed by the author and with a wood-engraved portrait of the author by Leonard Baskin. Sewn into grey Fabriano wrappers, lacking slipcase. A very good to fine copy. Signed by Author(s).

One fo 350 copies. Pp. 18. Printed by hand at The Gehenna Press with some printing in red on title page and a couple of ornaments in olive green. 8vo., original patterned paper wrappers with printed paper label on upper cover. Tears to outside wrapper and scuffing to label. Introduction by John Dreyfuss. This New Year's keepsake was printed as a memorial in the year of Beatrice Warde's death, being an important speech she made at the St. Bride Institute on the responsibilities and powers of the Private Press.…

Folio bifolium (leaf dimensions approximately 50.5 x 34 cm). Unbound. Creased, with worn central horizontal fold, and somewhat dogeared at head and foot. Four pages, printed in black, with the first and fourth pages carrying a few words in red. The first page, headed 'THE GEHENNA SHAKESPEARE' in red, begins, 'The Gehenna Press, marking its twentieth year of dedication to the art of making worthy books, is pleased to announce its plan of printing, during the coming decade, a noble edition in imperial folio of the complete tragedies, histories, comedies and poems of William Shakespeare.' Announces that 'Titus Andronicus is now ready for subscribers'. Pages 2 and 3 are specimens, page 3 carrying an illustration by Baskin. The last page gives limitation and price, and describes the physical production of the first volume (paper by the Strathmore papermakers' Woronoco mill, hand-binding by Arno Werner, type by Bruce Rogers supplied by McKenzie & Harris of San Francisco ('Our debt to Colonel Carroll Harris for his selfless and expert guidance is very great.'). 'The Gehenna Shakespeare' has been described as 'one of the great failures of the press', which, according to Baskin, 'dropped into the pit labeled 'hubris typographicus'': only two volumes appeared, and shortly afterwards Basking left America for Devon, England, where he remained, near his idol Ted Hughes, for nine years.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Set in Arrighi and printed in red and black on Arches handmade paper. Number 238 of 350 (400) copies. Brown paper-covered boards with paper label, additional buckram box. Some damage to spine. A very good copy. Brook 54 notes that a number of copies were damaged in storage, resulting in broken spines.…

Hardcover. First Edition. 79 pages. 29 x 23.5 cm. Limited edition copy 299 of 1100 for the Rosenbach Foundation. Edited with an Essay by David R. Smith. Portrait of Conrad by Leonard Baskin. Harold McGrath was the pressman. Printed on Shizuoka vellum. Orig. marbled boards housed in gray board portfolio in a matching board slipcase backstrip with paper label. Fine.…

Hardcover. First Edition. 20 pages. 17 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition one of 250. Images in colors printed recto only. A cul-de-lampe is a typographic ornament, sometimes called a pendant, specifically a tailpiece in the shape of a triangle marking the end of a section of text. It may be a single illustration or assembled from fleurons. Printed on Nideggen and Fabriano blue and white paper by Harold McGrath. Orig. marbled boards, spine paper label. Fine.…

Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. One of 500 copies printed in black (with drawings in red) in Monotype Caslon on Cortlea. Illustrated with two drawings by Leonard Baskin. Bound in green cloth (speckled with gilt), spine titled in gilt, lacking printed dust-jacket.Book label. A very good bright copy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Monotype Van Dijck and printed on Fabriano paper. One of 1,100 copies with a wood-engraved portrait of Conrad by Leonard Baskin. French marble paper-covered boards, predominantly grey, reddish-brown and custard, printed label superimposed on upper board. Grey paper-covered chemise and slipcase. In 1974 David Godine, Publisher, acquired a few hundre unsold copies from the Rosenbach Foundation and reissued the book with a Godine label on the spine of the slipcase. 250 copies were sold to The Bodley Head, with their label. This is a Godine copy. In both cases the labels were printed by Godine. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Bembo, printed in black and red, with fleurons in green on Millbourn Book Laid paper. One of 500 copies. Sewn into overlapping grey Fabriano wrappers with the wording and typography of the title page repeated on the front cover, set within a wreath printed in green. A fine copy. The first printing. 250 additional copies were printed for the Press.These have a notice pasted onto the first leaf.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Set in Monotype Bembe. One of 300 unnumbered copies printed in red and black on Warren's Oldstyle paper. Wood-engraved portrait of Burns by Gillian Lewis. Dark grey cloth over boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine in original glassine wrapper. (Brook 32b) Another version of this book on Amalfi handmade in marbled paper-covered boards.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. 193 of 500 copies. Francesco Laurana (1430 - 1502) was an Dalmatian sculptor (Italian and Croatian) known for his portrait busts. "His art is legible to us today and awakens in us the joy of recognition" (introduction). Includes introductory essay, 12 plates, and bibliography. Essays printed by Harold McGrath, plates printed at the Meriden Gravure Co., in Meriden, Connecticut. Printed in Centaur and Arrighi types on Amalfi paper, handmade in Italy with plates on Tovil paper, handmade in England. Bound in blue laid paper over cream parchment spine titled in gilt. A few small spots of foxing to parchment. Clean interior overall with minor browning to endpapers from glue used in binding. Small scattered spots of foxing, mostly to margins. In original glassine, which is browned wiht a few tears to edges. Unpaginated. PRI/101923. …

Northampton, MA, The Gehenna Press, [1963]. 23 x 22 cm. Cahiersteek. 12 p. Met illustraties in kleuren. Oplage 2000 exemplaren. Met los inliggend extra reclamedrukje. 1e druk. Wat vlekjes. Dat beloofde wat, schitterende illustraties, spannende typografie en voorop zo'n geweldig bouwwerk van typografische vignetten, een specialiteit van de Gehenna Press. Initiatief van de beeldhouwer en graficus Leonard Baskin (1922-2000).…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Monotype Centaur and (mostly) printed in black on Frankfurt paper. One of 475 (500) copies, this not numbered. Illustrated with a single wood-engraving by Leonard Baskin. Sewn into grey Fabriano wrappers, titled in black on the front. A fine copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Set in Monotype Centaur, printed in black and red on Frankfurt paper, (with four of the sx engravings on Moriki paper). 6 wood-engraved portraits of William Blake by Leonard Baskin. One of 475 (500) copies. Standard binding of boards covered with French marbled paper, printed label on front cover. Edges slightly rubbed. A very good copy.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Set in Caslon and Perpetua and printed in red and black on blue Ticonderoga Text paper. Wood-engraved portrait by Leonard Baskin. Four leaves of photographs. Brown wrappers, titled in black, spine somewhat faded. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Monotype Bembo and printed in black with fleurons in red on Lippi handmade paper. Number 49 of 150 copies. Blue Ingres paper-covered boards with imitation vellum spine titled in gilt. A fine copy. Gehenna Essays in Art No.3. Although the book was printed in 1972, the binding is stamped 1973, and the book was not published until 1975.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Monotype Van Dijck and printed in red and black on Fabriano paper. One of 500 copies. Tipped-in facsimilon Arches and Shizuoka Vellum to simulate the papers used by Mosher. Photo-portrait of Mosher, newly engraved pressmark by Leonard Baskin. Bound in blue Fabriano over boards, linen spine with printed label (and spare label). Fine copy in matching slipcase.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. One of a total edition of 250 copies printed in many colours, on the rectos only, on Nideggen and Fabriano papers. Type: Centaur. Bound by E.G. Parrot in marbled paper over boards. A fine copy. Originally bound by Arno Werner in quarter parchment with marbled boards. These later copies contain four extra blank leaves. (Brook 55).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Monotype Bembo and printed in red and black on Amalfi handmade paper. One of 300 copies. Wood-engraved portrait of Burns by Gillian Lewis. Brown quarter cloth, French marbled paper-covered boards, printed label superimposed on the upper cover and spine. A fine copy with slipcase and prospectus. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Number 183 of 450 (500) copies set in Centaur and Arrighi and printed in red and black on Amalfi and Tovil papers. 12 photographic plates reproduced at Meriden Gravure. Blue paper-covered boards, parchment back lettered in gilt, top edge trimmed, others uncut. A fine copy in the original glassine. Presswork by Harold McGrath. (Brook 30). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Palatino italic and printed in red and black on Arches handmade paper. Number 130 of 350 standard copies. Title lettered by John E. Benson. Green Fabriano paper-covered boards with spine label printed in red. Book label. A fine copy.

One of 250 copies. Title vignette and 19 pages of culs de lampe printed in red, green, blue and black on Nideggen and Fabriano blue and white paper. Pages numbered in grey. In addition there is a contents page with details of the sixteenth and seventeenth century books from which these culs de lampe are taken, a colophon and Baskin's own design for a cul de lampe printed in red. Oblong sm. 8vo., original marbled paper covered boards with printed paper label on spine. Upper corners slightly bumped, some mild rubbing to very edges of spine and boards. Signed and inscribed by Baskin on the colophon - "For my old friend Robert from Leonard with constant affection, 1988".…

Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Set in Perpetua type, being one 100 (200) unnumbered copies printed in black and red on Mead's Suede Book paper. Illustrated with 11 wood engravings. Bound in marbled paper over boards with imitation vellum titled in gilt. Lacks slipcase, spine dulled. A very good copy. One hundred copies were printed on Nideggen paper. These were numbered and signed by the artist. The book is rare in any state.…

Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Handset in Perpetua type an printed in an edition of 1,000 copies. Illustrations (in colours) printed from six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on Amalfi hand-made paper and Japanese Moriki, and signed by Leonard Baskin. Hand-sewn into blue wrappers, this being one of just a few laid into a half-morocco box made at the Harcourt Bindery, Boston. Spine of box faded, else fine. Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Bilingual edition, illustrated with 23 drawings in various sizes. Number 133 of 200 (300) copies set in Monotype Baskerville and printed in red and black on Monadnock WvG paper. Bound in red cloth over bevelled boards, spine and upper board lettered in gilt. Enclosed in a slipcase covered with Cockerell marbled paper. A fine copy of a very handsome book. "The colophon and three succeeding blank leaves were bound in error before the Afterword" (Stephen Brook 65). No more volumes were published.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Centaur and Arrighi. With 21 woodcuts, printed in many colours, every print being signed by the artist. Nine oriental papers were use. Sheets enclosed within a stiff wrapper and laid in a crimson cloth-covered box with niger morocco spine, gilt, by Arno Werner. A fine copy. Signed by Illustrator(s).…

22 cm. 64, (3) pp. Gehenna Tract I. Edited by Sidney Kaplan. Copy #51, of 100 copies printed at The Gehenna Press. The portrait of Samuel Sewall on the title page, printed from the block, was engraved by Leonard Baskin. Accompanied by an additional impression of the portrait, signed and numbered by the artist, on Japanese paper, laid in loose. Additionally numbered in pencil on the colophon. Gilt stamped leather spine and marbled boards. A very nice copy. Sewall's anti-slavery tract was originally published in Boston in 1700. Leonard Baskin, sculptor and illustrator founded the Gehenna Press in 1942 and continued to produce fine press books throughout his career.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Hardcover. Number 34 of 200 copies signed by the famed illustrator and founder of the press, Leonard Baskin. Leonard Baskin (1922 - 2000) was an American sculptor, draughtsman, and graphic artist, as well as founder of the Gehenna Press (1942-2000). One of America's first fine arts presses, it went on to become "one of the most important and comprehensive art presses of the world", often featuring the work of poets, such as Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Anthony Hecht, and James Baldwin side by side with Baskin's bold, stark, energetic and often dramatic black-and-white prints. Called a "Sculptor of Stark Memorials" by the New York Times, Baskin is also known for his wood, limestone, bronze, and large-scale woodblock prints, which ranged from naturalistic to fanciful, and were frequently grotesque, featuring bloated figures or humans merging with animals [Wikipedia]. Euripides was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy for whom any plays have survived in full. His play, Hippolytos, is an Ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, based on the myth of Hippolytus, son of Theseus. The play was first produced for the City Dionysia of Athens in 428 BC and won first prize as part of a trilogy. The text is extant. This may be one of the most stunning of the many fine works published by this famous press. It is accompanied by a separate folder of ten prints with illustrations taken from the text. Bound in brown, cream, and black marbled paper boards with a brown leather spine with the author and title names in small gilt letters. The types are Monotype Centaur and Arright. The pressman was the well known printer Harold McGrath. Baskin's etchings were printed from the plates by Emiliano Sorini. In the colophon thanks are given to John Moore of Amherst College, George Dimock of Smith College, and Wililiam Arrowsmith, James Hynd, and Thomas Gould of the University of Texas for their comments on the text. The text was taken frin W.S. Barrett's edition of the play as published by the Oxford University Press. Housed in a slipcase that also holds the folder of prints. The slipcase has the same marbled papers that were used on the book.It also has a brown leather spine with the titling in gilt. There are two small stains on the leater spine. Other than that, this work is in fine condition. Measores 13 x 20 inches. Unpaginated. PRI/080326. Signed.…