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Searsmont, ME: Gehenna Press, 1988. First edition. Unbound sheets. Very good (slight handling wear and soil). Baskin, Leonard. Two nested folded sheets, making 8 pages total; 6 ills., mostly in color and mostly by Leonard Baskin. Ca. 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches, folded. Publisher's prospectus, announcing "the establishment of [Gehenna Press's] subsidiary The Eremite Press and in celebration thereof is proffering for sale a number of titles from its stock of earlier-printed books & a descriptive list of the newer publications."  Lists and describes the presses' books and broadsides in chronological order, from Encantadas (1962) to Winter: Irises (1988).  A frequent collaborator was binder/paper marbler Gray Parrot. With specifications of the publications but no prices.  Shipping/handling may be extra; please keep this in mind when ordering.

Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1963. Pamphlet. VG- (light shelfwear to wraps, pages are otherwise very clean). Off-white wraps with bw illustration and red lettering on front cover; 12 unnumbered pages, bw and color illustrations. "2000 copies printed at The Gehenna Press. The ornaments on the cover were arranged by Patricia Milne-Henderson"--Colophon. Prospectus announcing the newly completed edition of The jolly beggars: a cantata, by Robert Burns (which has colophon dated June 1963); recent publication "this spring" of Encantadas, by Herman Melville, with illustrations by Rico Lebrun engaved in wood by Leonard Baskin; continuing availability of Homage to Redon: ten portraits by George Lockwood (published 1959), Thirteen poems by Wilfred Owen, with drawings by Ben Shahn (published 1956), and Pike: a broadside, poem by Ted Hughes, with woodcut by Robert Bermelin (published 1959); and 2 works in progress, Rembrandt, blindness, and the Tobias story, by Julian S. Held, and The general defense of… Read More

Lunenburg, Vermont: Stinehour Press, 1959.. Offprint from Printing & Graphic Arts. 8vo. 33-68 pp. Staple-bound Wraps. Illustrated. VG. From the Collection of the Book Designer Philip Grushkin (1921 - 1998).

The Gehenna Press. Minimal wear. D5 . Very Good. Soft cover. 1992.

Univ Pr of New England. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/None. Foxing on tops, bottoms, and edges of some pages. ; 11.1 X 8.5 X 1.0 inches; 239 pages

[Northampton, Massachusetts]: [The Gehenna Press], 1959. Paperback. VG (Wraps show minor foxing and shelfwear; first tissue guard shows damp staining; pages show shelfwear, but are clean; binding is solid). Tan wraps with black illustration and red lettering; [8] pp; richly illustrated. "Title woodcut by Eric Gill; other illustrations by Leonard Baskin." -- website.

Dallas, TX: Bridwell Library and Gehenna Press. Used-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. (1992). Ltd Edition. Paperback. Signed by the Printer Leonard Baskin. Only 2000 copies printed . 4to., 239 pp. .

allas and Northampton: The Bridwell Library & The Gehenna Press, 1992. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good+ in Wraps. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. The Gehenna Press was established in 1942 by sculptor and graphic artist Leonard Baskin [1922-2000]. Gehenna Press published approximately 200 books in nearly 60 years, winding up operation shortly after Baskin's death in 2000. Exhibition catalogue of the Bridwell Library exhibit curated by Lisa Unger Baskin. The work represents a rather excellent exploration of Baskin's work. [essay by Colin Frankin, notes on the books by Baskin; bibliography of the Press by Hosea Baskin. Light shelf/edge wear, small notch in bottom front edge, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed stiff wraps, lettering in red and black ink. 4to. 238pp. Illus. (b/w plates).

Dallas and Northampton: The Bridwell Library & The Gehenna Press, 1992 4to (28 cm), [4], 237, [2] pp. Printed wrappers. The Gehenna Press was established in 1942 by sculptor and graphic artist Leonard Baskin (1922-2000). The award-winning press went on to publish approximately 200 books in nearly 60 years, finally ceasing operation shortly after Baskin's death in 2000. The book is the catalogue of an exhibition in the Bridwell Library curated by Lisa Unger Baskin, containing an assessment of the work of the press by Colin Frankin, a bibliography of the books of the Gehenna Press by Hosea Baskin, and notes on the books by the printer, Leonard Baskin.

Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1994.. Prospectus. Folio. Folded Sheet. Very Good with minor creasing. Letterpress on Laid Paper, Ochre & black ink used for text. Color etchings. This is an advertisement for the book, not the book itself.

Dallas: The Bridwell Library and The Gehenna Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine copy in full black cloth. No DJ, as issued. The essential Gehenna reference and a beautiful book in its own right. Printed at the Oxbow Press, Amherst MA.

The Bridwell Library & The Gehenna Press, 1992. Printed by the Oxbow Press, Amherst, Mass. Hardcover. 4to, black cloth, paper title label in black and red at spine, applied and inset title label on front cover and illustration of pomegranate on rear cover. [ii], [1]-238, [1] pp., numerous illus. some in color.

Bridwell/Gehenna, 1992-02-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!