Book details
$US 575.00
Crane, Hart
VOYAGES, SIX POEMS FROM WHITE BUILDINGS. With Wood-Engravings by LEONARD BASKIN.
Imprint: New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1957
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
Oblong folio in blue paper wrappers with a two-color label on the upper cover; laid into a blue-paper-covered board folder with another label. A VERY FINE copy; just some sunning to the spine of the folder (which is generally found in disrepair or lacking altogether)One of 975 copies for sale SIGNED by Baskin at whose Gehenna Press it was printed for The Museum of Modern Art. The type is Perpetua and the six boxwood engravings and lone woodcut have been pulled on Italian and Japanese hand-made papers in a variety of colors.The book has been recognized for inclusion in The Artist & The Book 1860-1960 (No. 13), which mentions that it was honored as one of the "Fifty Books of the Year 1957" by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In addition to commenting on the book's complexity Baskin says, "...its bizarries of sequence reveal far more about my struggles with typography & woodengraving than about Crane." See: The Gehenna Press. The Work of Fifty Years. No. 11.
"A terribly overcomplicated book..." Baskin
Stock number:635.