May 05, 2009 - Sale 2179

Sale 2179 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 5,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
SCHOLDER, FRITZ; and BASKIN, LEONARD. A Book of Plains Indians; Monotypes and Words. 7 monotypes each, by Scholder and Baskin. 4to, beautifully bound by Claudia Cohen in full tan niger oasis, with inlaid horizontal strapwork of terra-cotta and olive morocco, hand-tooled in gold and blind, and laid into an olive cloth box with its own leather spine label. Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1994

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number 17 of only 26 copies signed by scholder and baskin. A lovely production which was the result of Baskin's invitation to Scholder to collaborate on a major work for the Gehenna Press. Printed in letterpress by Carol J. Blinn of the Warwick Press, using Czech and Japanese handmade papers. Michael Kuch printed the monotypes on an etching press at Gehenna Press.