Oct 27, 2022 - Sale 2619

Sale 2619 - Lot 243

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(BASKIN, LEONARD / GEHENNA PRESS.) Skelton, John. A Poem Called The Tunning of Elynour Rummynge: The Famous Ale-Wife of England. Printed in red, black, teal, tan, and green. 13 woodcuts by Leonard Baskin printed in various colors. Tall 4to, publisher's boards with printed cover and spine labels; laid in are the prospectus (creased) and a printed 1963 New Year's greeting from the Baskins in an envelope addressed to Wheeler. Number 28 of 118 copies. Signed by Leonard and Esther Baskin, the 5th book of the press, and the first to incorporate both text and illustration on the same page--Gehenna 5. Ex-collection Anatole Pohorilenko, ex-donor Monroe Wheeler, Director of Exhibitions and Publications, The Museum of Modern Art, with his bookplate. Worcester: Gehenna Press, 1953