Stephen Brooks. A Bibliography of the Gehenna Press, 1942-1975. Northampton, Ma.: J.P. Dwyer, 1976. First edition. Pages xvi, 77. ca. 6” x 9 ½”. Illustrated.

 

Limited to 400 copies, this unnumbered, with an original woodblock portrait of Gehenna Press founder Leonard Baskin by Barry Moser as a frontispiece and with an extra copy of the portrait printed from the block laid in. Red buckram protected with glassine wrapper as issued.

 

Fine copy of the first edition of Brook’s pioneering bibliography of artist Leonard Baskin’s famed Gehenna Press, published by the local antiquarian bookseller Jeffrey P. Dwyer who knew Baskin. Illustrated with reproductions of the press marks designed by Baskin for the press.

 

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