Gypsy: & Other Poems

Book Description

Leeds: The Gehenna Press, 1989. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright and unmarred. Traycase tight and clean. Quarterbound, black leather spine, black textured paste paper over boards, gilt lettering, bound in/tipped in etchings, tissue guards. Traycase in red cloth, three black leather labels, gilt lettering and decorative elements. 4to. np [approx. 24pp text plus etchings]. Illus. (color and b/w engravings). Limited numbered edition, this being 15 of 50 within complete run of 325. Etchings and colophon signed by Baskin. This being one of the 50 specially bound by Daniel Gehnrich with paste paper boards by Babette Gehnrich. Includes signed portfolio of etchings of Baldwin by Baskin, each signed. Baskin had been working with Baldwin to produce a book of unpublished poems by Baldwin. It became, "alas, into a volume memorializing Baldwin" following his unexpected and untimely death. An important work in Baldwin's cannon, beautifully illustrated by Baskin.

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