(Gehenna Press). Kunitz, Stanley. The Coat without a Seam, Sixty Poems, 1930-1972. Northampton, MA: 1974. 7 ¼” x 11 ½”.

The colophon begins “this book, limited to one hundred and fifty copies, was printed at The Gehenna Press in Northampton, Massachusetts in Centaur monotype on Amatruda, an Italian hand-made paper. The portrait of the poet was drawn by Leonard Baskin. Harold McGrath was the pressman…” This an unnumbered, unbound and uncut set of sheets for the book which is beautifully printed in three colors.

The Gehenna Press was founded by American artist Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) while he studied at Yale University in 1942. Copies of Gehenna Press publications are found in major fine art museums world-wide, including the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) and the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC). Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) graduated from Harvard with Bachelors and Masters degrees in English, worked as a reporter and editor and taught college. His first book of poetry was published in 1930 and he was twice the Poet Laureate of the U.S. Library of Congress (1974, 2000).

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