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VOYAGES, SIX POEMS FROM WHITE BUILDINGS.
Crane, Hart

- New York : The Museum of Modern Art 1957 - oblong 4to. - hand-sewn stiff paper wrappers with paper label on front wrapper; portfolio with same paper label on front cover - (14) pages excluding bound-in or mounted illustrations - Order Nr. 114358 - Price: $ 250.00

Limited to 975 numbered copies and 25 lettered review copies, signed by illustrator Leonard Baskin. This is a numbered copy. Second in a series of limited editions published by the Museum of Modern Art under Monroe Wheeler. Designed, illustrated and printed by Baskin at the Gehenna Press in Northampton, Massachusetts. Illustrations printed from six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on Amalfi Italian hand-made paper and Moriki and Mending tissue (hand-made in Japan). See Brook, A Bibliography of the Gehenna Press, 8 (item 11). Portfolio lightly sunned at spine and slightly torn at edges. Label on portfolio has piece lacking along edge.

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HELLMUTH WEISSENBORN, PAINTER & GRAPHIC ARTIST. WITH AN I... First edition, limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by the artist. A handsome production from the Whittington Press (Butcher 17). Printed on Wookey Hole mouldmade paper. The illustrations are shown in color and also include 8 tipped-in color plates.