VOYAGES; Six Poems from White Buildings, with wood engravings by Leonard Baskin
NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1957. Baskin. First Edition. Oblong 8vo, the second in a series of limited editions published by The Museum of Modern Art under the direction of Monroe Wheeler, designed, illustrated and printed by Leonard Baskin at The Gehenna Press. The illustrations have been printed from six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on Amalfi Italian hand-made paper and on Moriki and Mending Tissue, both hand-made in Japan. This is # 451 of a limited edition of 975 copies, signed and numbered by Leonard Baskin. " A fine copy hand sewn into blue wraps with paper label in an irregularly faded publisher's portfolio that shows some wear at the tips. Artist & The Book 13; Brook 11; Baskin 11. Item #52104
Baskin noted:" A terribly overcomplicated book, its vagaries in structure & its bizarreries of sequence reveal far more about my struggles with typography & wood engraving than about Crane ... but it does startle and somewhat dazzle ..."
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