Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 267

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
Gehenna Press. Leonard Baskin (1922-2000)
Grotesques: Etchings & a Panegyrical Note.

Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1991.

Limited edition, folio; no. II of five roman numeral copies created for the printers and collaborators, hors de commerce, from a total edition of only 26 copies numbered and signed by Baskin on the colophon; title printed in red and black; 48 etchings printed in color comprising: an illustrated half-title, 14 on chine and mounted in the margins, and 33 plates signed and numbered by Baskin in pencil; bound in marbled boards decorated with a gilt compass rose and title by Grey Parrot & Co., with a gilt stamped morocco spine label, all edges uncut; housed in a matching cloth clamshell box with corresponding morocco spine label; 13 x 9 3/4 in.