Buy this book on-line Crane, Hart : VOYAGES, SIX POEMS FROM WHITE BUILDINGS. With Wood-Engravings by LEONARD BASKINMuseum of Modern Art, New York, 1957
Oblong folio in blue paper wrappers with a two-color label on the upper cover; laid into a blue-paper-covered board folder with another label. A VERY FINE copy; just some sunning to the spine of the folder (which is generally found in disrepair or lacking altogether)One of 975 copies for sale SIGNED by Baskin at whose Gehenna Press it was printed for The Museum of Modern Art. The type is Perpetua and the six boxwood engravings and lone woodcut have been pulled on Italian and Japanese hand-made papers in a variety of colors.The book has been recognized for inclusion in The Artist & The Book 1860-1960 (No. 13), which mentions that it was honored as one of the "Fifty Books of the Year 1957" by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In addition to commenting on the book's complexity Baskin says, "...its bizarries of sequence reveal far more about my struggles with typography & woodengraving than about Crane." See: The Gehenna Press. The Work of Fifty Years. No. 11. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Crane, Hart : VOYAGES, SIX POEMS FROM WHITE BUILDINGS. With Wood-Engravings by LEONARD BASKIN. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including first editions, livres illustrées, atlases, fine bindings and livres d'occasion. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |