Hosie's Aviary
Book Description
1st Edition. 25 x 29.1 cm green cloth with dark green titles to the spine and Leonard Baskin’s monogram to the front cover. Unpaginated, (48)pp with 22 colour illustrations by Leonard Baskin. With original dust jacket priced at $10.00. Inscribed by Baskin on the front free endpaper, ‘For Ian & Ian/ with the affectionate/ regard/ o/f Lisa and Leonard/ 1979’. Laid in is a prospectus and order form for Leonard Baskin’s Catalogue RAisonne from Leinster Fine Art Books.
A near fine book clean and bright with only Leonard Baskin’s elegant gift inscription on the front free endpaper. The dust jacket, which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown), has a touch of fading to the spine a hint of rubbing to the spine tips and a long corner crease to the top corner of the front flap. A really lovely 1st Edition of this family effort beautifully illustrated with the artist's watercolours.
Author
BASKIN, Tobias, Lucretia Hosie & Lisa
Date
1979
Publisher
Viking Press, New York
Illustrator
BASKIN, Leonard
Condition
NF/VG+
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