Search Results: the defense of gracchus babeuf before

Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good+/Good+. Cloth backed boards in dust jacket, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book has faint soil and edgewear to boards and spine, binding tight, faint foxing to endpapers and edges of block, text clean and unmarked. DJ has insect damage to spine foot, rubbing and shelfwear, faint toning to front panel.

Schocken Books, New York, 1972. Later Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Thomas Cornell. Size: 8vo <9 3/4". x + 117pp. Internally clean. Binding firm, spine faded. Edges slightly foxed and browned. Covers slightly marked. Illustrated. Illustrator: Thomas Cornell. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: History; France; 18th century; Politics & Government. ISBN: 0805203427. ISBN/EAN: 9780805203424. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 47765. . 9780805203424

University of Massachusetts Press, 1967. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

1964. [Leonard Baskin at the] Gehenna Press, 1964. [Leonard Baskin at the] Gehenna Press, 1964. Fine-Press Account of the Trial of an Important French Revolutionary and Socialist Martyr [Trial]. Babeuf, Gracchus [1760-1797], Defendant. Cornell, Thomas [1937-2012], Illustrator. Scott, John Anthony [1916-2010], Editor, Translator, Author. The Defense of Gracchus Babeuf Before the High Court of Vendome. Northampton, [MA]: [Leonard Baskin at the] Gehenna Press, 1964. [ii], 83, [5] pp. Etched frontispiece, 20 etched plates. 21 plates in all. Quarto (12-1/2" x 8-3/4"). Six quires of uncut and unopened quartos in twos, one of each pair inserted into the fold of the other, laid into calf chemise, pages interleaved with 20 signed loose etchings printed by Emiliano Sorini in New York and it was designed and produced by Leonard Baskin on blue Fabriano laid paper. Letterpress in Baskerville type on linen Nideggen laid paper moldmade in Germany. Orange press mark signed by Thomas Cornell. Housed in quarter-calf… Read More

Northampton, Mass: The Gehenna Press, 1964. Hardbound. VG+, never used or abused an exquisite copy. full leather chemise laid in a cloth-covered clamshell box with a light tan leather spine. (ii), 83, (5) pages in addition to 21 etched portraits printed on special paper and loosely inserted throughout the text. This is copy C.108 of 250 printed in this format (and 300 printed in total). Signed by the artist-etcher Thomas Cornell. First Edition. 4to., full leather chemise laid in a cloth-covered clamshell box with a leather spine. (ii), 83, (5) pages in addition to 21 etched portraits printed on special paper and loosely inserted throughout the text. The paper is Nideggen made in Germany, and the pressman was Harold McGrath. The suite of etchings were printed by Emiliano Sorini in New York and it was designed and produced by Leonard Baskin. Printed in an edition limited to 300 numbered copies. This is called a "printer's copy", signed by Leonard Baskin. which contains twenty-one etched portraits… Read More

Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1964. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine DJ.. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 20 loose portraits, hand-printed on blue Fabriano, each etching signed by the artist. Baskin 36. Ownership plate at front pastedown, else tight, bright and unmarred. Loose signatures in full brown leather over board portfolio, gilt lettering; quarterbound archival traycase, brown leather spine, gilt lettering. Small 4to. 84pp plus np plates. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 151 of 250. Signed by Leonard Baskin; each plate signed by Cornell.

Northampton: published by Leonard Baskin at the Gehenna Press, 1964. One of 50 special numbered copies with an extra suite of etchings on large white Rives paper, signed, titled and numbered by the artist. 21 etchings by Thomas Cornell on blue Fabriano paper plus the extra suite, all signed except the frontispiece, as issued. Designed by Leonard Baskin. Loose in a full leather chemise and laid into a leather and cloth tray case with the extra etchings in a cloth portfolio. Spine of box a little worn, otherwise very good.||Babeuf led the so called “Conspiracy of Equals” against the French Directory in post-Revolutionary France, for which he was executed in 1796. He is now seen as the first communist.|

Northampton: The Gehenna Press, 1964. First Edition. Thomas Cornell. 4to., full leather chemise laid in a cloth-covered clamshell box with a leather spine. (ii), 83, (5) pages in addition to 21 etched portraits printed on special paper and loosely inserted throughout the text. The paper is Nideggen made in Germany, and the pressman was Harold McGrath. The suite of etchings were printed by Emiliano Sorini in New York and it was designed and produced by Leonard Baskin. Printed in an edition limited to 300 numbered copies. This is called a "printer's copy", signed by Leonard Baskin. which contains twenty-one etched portraits signed by Thomas Cornell on blue Fabriano, enclosed in unbound, uncut signatures. Brook 36; Baskin 36. The "First Revolutionary Communist", French political agitator and revolutionary, Francois Noel (Gracchus) Babeuf (1760-1797) led the so called "Conspiracy of Equals" against the French Directory. This was the first violent attempt to install socialism in a country. The plot was… Read More