GYPSY BOOKBINDER.
- Easthampton MA: Warwick Press, 2005.
- 8vo.
- full limp black goat skin, red binder's stamp on front board, title stamped in gilt on front board and spine
- not paginated
Price: $800.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 139487
Limited to an edition of 80 copies, of which this is one of only two hors commerce copies bound thus by Daniel Gehnrich. A fine copy.
Letterpress printed by Carol Blinn. This is the text of a speech given by Daniel Gehnrich, bookbinder and conservator, on the occasion of the three millionth book at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It was James Baldwin's Gypsy & Other Poems, published in 1989 by Leonard Baskin's Gehenna Press. Gehnrich did the hand binding of the Baldwin book. The speech printed here tells of Gehnrich's and Baskin's friendship. Each book as a tipped-in original paste paper sample made by Daniel, a digitally reproduced photo of Daniel and Arno Werner and a photo of the Baldwin book.