A LETTER FROM WILLIAM BLAKE
BLAKE, WILLIAM
Published by Gehenna Press, 1964
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Soft cover
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Braiterman, Marilyn (ABAA member), New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Illustrator BASKIN, LEONARD One of 500 numbered copies printed in Centaur type by Harold McGrath at Baskin's Gehenna Press. Six wood-engraved portraits of William Blake printed from the blocks on Japanese Moriki paper. The text is Blake's letter to Thomas Butts dated January 10, 1802. Brook 37. Marbled paper wrappers over flexible boards, paper cover label. Seller Inventory # ABE-1693505794997
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Title: A LETTER FROM WILLIAM BLAKE
Publisher: Gehenna Press
Publication Date: 1964
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: As New
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The Apollo Press Limited, 1926
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Soft cover
Seller: Shore Books, London, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 64 pages. Illustrated. R H Wilenski "William Blake As Artist" / James H Hyde "The Four Parts Of The World As Represented In Old-Time Pageants And Ballets, Part 1" / Ernest Newman "The Plain Man And His Music-IX, The Case Of Beethoven" / Bernard Bevan "Danzig" / Watson Lyle "The Charm Of Old Violins" / Murray Adams-Acton "Domestic Architecture And Decoration-XVI" / Malcolm C Salaman "A Gossip About Prints" / Andre Salmon "Letter From Paris" / Oscar Bie "Letter From Berlin" (U.P.). Seller Inventory # SL10832
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Left Review February 1937 Vol.3 No 1 / Ralph Fox: A Tribute / Dona Torr "Ralph Fox & Our Cultural Heritage" / John Lehmann "Letter from Tiflis" / C Day Lewis "An Expensive Education" / Stephen Spencer "Tangier's & Gibraltar NOW" / Randall Swingler "William Blake - The Imputation of Madness" / Maurice Carpenter"We ask for LIFE" (poem) / "Charles Madge "Magic & Materialism" / George Geraint "Red Coal" / Herbert Read & Hugh Sykes Davies "Surrealism - reply to A.L.Lloyd"
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Left Review, 1937
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Soft cover
Seller: Shore Books, London, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 68 pages. Illustrated. Ralph Fox: A Tribute / Dona Torr "Ralph Fox & Our Cultural Heritage" / John Lehmann "Letter from Tiflis" / C Day Lewis "An Expensive Education" / Stephen Spencer "Tangier's & Gibraltar NOW" / Randall Swingler "William Blake - The Imputation of Madness" / Maurice Carpenter"We ask for LIFE" (poem) / "Charles Madge "Magic & Materialism" / George Geraint "Red Coal" / Herbert Read & Hugh Sykes Davies "Surrealism - reply to A.L.Lloyd" (SL#84). Seller Inventory # SL12045
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[Publisher's Prospectus]: A Letter from William Blake
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The Gehenna Press, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1964
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First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
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Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Publisher's Prospectus. One narrow quarto sheet measuring approximately 6" x 14", printed recto only. Illustrated with a portrait of Blake by Leonard Baskin. Light vertical crease in the left margin and one corner creased, irregularly tanned from the cardboard stiffener, very good in the original mailing envelope. Seller Inventory # 597084
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[Publisher's Prospectus]: A Letter from William Blake
Published by
The Gehenna Press, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1964
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First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Publisher's Prospectus. One narrow quarto sheet measuring approximately 6" x 14", printed recto only. Illustrated with a portrait of Blake by Leonard Baskin. Light vertical crease in the left margin and light wear at the corners, blank verso with modest offsetting from the cardboard stiffener, just about near fine in the original mailing envelope. Seller Inventory # 578625
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A LETTER FROM WILLIAM BLAKE
Published by
The Gehenna Press, Northampton, 1964
Used
Soft cover
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. French marbled paper over boards, cover label, 12mo., (14) leaves including six wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. One of 500 numbered copies printed at the Gehenna Press by Harold McGrath from Centaur type on Frankfurt paper, with four of the engravings on Moriki. . A clean, very lightly worn, respectable near fine copy of a seemingly scarce book. Signed by Artist. Seller Inventory # 006631
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A Letter from William Blake [to Thomas Butts, dated Jany. 10, 1802]
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Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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Northampton (MA): Gehenna Press, 1964. Slim 12mo, [16]pp. With 6 wood-engravings, 4 printed on Japan tissue, all being versions of Blake's face. Original marbled wrappers, printed label on upper cover. Backstrip somewhat worn, and chipped, with fading and shelfwear to edges and tips. § Limited to 500 copies (but surely fewer than that) this copy unnumbered. There were also 25 de luxe copies with an extra suite of the plates. Only two copies are recorded as having sold in the last 30 years and this is the only copy we have ever seen. The letter is classic Blake to his great patron: "I hear a voice you cannot hear, that says I must not stay, I see a hand you cannot see, that beckons me away. Naked we came here, naked of Natural things, & naked we shall return; but while clothed with the Divine Mercy, we are richly clothed in Spiritual & suffer all the rest gladly." Bentley, Blake Books, 94. Seller Inventory # 126227
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A letter from William Blake
Published by
Gehenna Press, [Northampton, Mass, 1964
Used
Softcover
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Edition limited to 500 copies (this, no. 254), 16mo, pp. [16]; fine in original marbled wrappers; From the library of Kim Merker. The text is Blake's letter to Thomas Butts dated January 10, 1802. Baskin 37. Seller Inventory # 62135
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A Letter from William Blake [to Thomas Butts, dated Jany. 10, 1802]
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Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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Northampton (MA): Gehenna Press, 1964. Slim 12mo, [16]pp. With 6 wood-engravings, 4 printed on Japan tissue, all being versions of Blake's face. Original marbled wrappers, printed label on upper cover, mint as issued. Loosely inserted is the business card for Louis Smith of Smith Glass and Mirror in Northampton with a fine woodcut of a rooster, signed by Baskin in pencil. The company is still in business in Northampton. § Limited to 500 copies (but surely fewer than that) this is number 26. There were also 25 de luxe copies with an extra suite of the plates. Only two copies are recorded as having sold in the last 30 years and this is the only copy we have ever seen. The letter is classic Blake to his great patron: "I hear a voice you cannot hear, that says I must not stay, I see a hand you cannot see, that beckons me away. Naked we came here, naked of Natural things, & naked we shall return; but while clothed with the Divine Mercy, we are richly clothed in Spiritual & suffer all the rest gladly." Bentley, Blake Books, 94. Seller Inventory # 123975
Quantity: 1 available