Voyages: Six Poems from White Buildings by Hart Crane with Wood Engravings by Leonard Baskin [in portfolio]

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1957. Paperback. Near Fine. [28] p., 2 leaves of tissue plates: six wood engravings and one woodcut; 26 x 29 cm. Stitched blue-grey wrappers with label printed in red and black. Within original portfolio covered in the same glue-grey paper with matching printed label on the front and a spine label printed in red. Designed, illustrated, and printed by Leonard Baskin at the Gehenna Press, Nov. 1957. Handprinted in Perpetua type. "The illustrations have been printed from six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on Amalfi Italian hand-made paper and on Moriki and Mending Tissue, both hand-made in Japan." This is no. 635 of a limited edition of 975 copies, from an edition of 1000; signed by Leonard Baskin. It was honored as one of the "Fifty Books of the Year 1957" by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Book is in Near Fine Condition: front wrapper lightly creased from upper corner along fore-edge; clean and crisp. Portfolio is in Good Condition: both front sections are starting to separate along the front joints from the tail; color is faded; lacking small part of spine label; front label is complete and bright.