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Tiresias.
Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1970. 12mo (7.25” x 5.125), vellum over boards, author/title and press/year in gilt at spine, author/title in gilt at upper cover, deckled edges. 3 blank leaves; [1]; [2] frontis.; [3] title; [5] dedication; [7–24] text & etchings; [25] pressmark; [27] colophon; 5 blank leaves. Baskin’s gift inscription on colophon: “Wyman Parker from his friend Leonard. 1985”. Bookplate of Wyman Parker at lower left corner of front paste-down. In original beige cloth and vellum traycase, author/title and press/year in gilt at spine. CONDITION: Very good, a few faint stains to covers, one small brown stain at lower edge of rfep and lower paste-down. One of fifty copies printed. This one, which is unnumbered, is identified by Baskin as the “printer’s copy.” From the colophon: “Fifty copies of Tiresias have been printed at the Gehenna Press, Northampton, Massachusetts, in Centaur type on Fabriano paper. The press man was Harold McGrath. The world Tiresias on the title page was engraved on boxwood by John E. Benson, and is printed here from the block. The etchings were printed by Annie Harris and John Keith in Northampton. The edition was bound by Arno Werner of Pittsfield, Mass.…Etchings by Leonard Baskin.” OCLC records thirty-six holdings of this work. According to The Gehenna Press : the Work of Fifty Years, #68, half the edition was destroyed by water damage, but according to Hosea Baskin, it’s unclear whether the edition was supposed to be larger and the colophon printed subsequent to the water damage, or whether indeed approximately half of the fifty copies were destroyed. In any case, given the number of library holdings listed in OCLC, it would appear that there are relatively few copies left in private hands. REFERENCES: Baskin, The Gehenna Press : The Work of Fifty Years, 68.
Item #8116
Price: $1,500.00
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