Hart Crane and Leonard Baskin
Voyages: Six Poems from White Buildings by Hart Crane.
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1957.
Price: $300.00
About the item
Baskin, Leonard. No. 661 of 975 numbered copies, signed by Baskin, from an edition of 1000. With seven wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Original blue stitched wrappers, printed label on upper cover, a fine copy in the original folding portfolio (slightly worn and soiled). Press/2/3.
Item #17745
One of a series of limited editions published by The Museum of Modern Art under the direction of Monroe Wheeler; this book was designed, illustrated and printed by Baskin at The Ghenna Press, Northampton, MA. The Perpetua type is handset, the blocks printed in black or color on Japanese hand-made papers. A superb, delicate work.
