Two drawings, ink and pencil on paper. Full page measures 12 x 9 inches (30 x 23 cm);  smaller sheet measures 5.5 x 8.5  (14 x 22 cm). TOGETHER WITH: A softcover copy of the Doubleday book from the library of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016. His ownership signature on the ffe.

Widely considered one of the preeminent figures of 20th century American art, Leonard Baskin was creatively active for over five decades as a sculptor, printmaker, painter, illustrator, critic, book publisher, and educator, and his work resonates with a rare degree of visual, social, and intellectual intensity. Especially notable for his monumental woodcuts that brought figurative printmaking on par with the abstract expressionists who were popular at the time, as a writer, he offered searing comments on important and often overlooked artists, and as a maker of books his Gehenna Press set the standard against which all fine press books are measured. Baskin received numerous honors, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Gold Medal of the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Jewish Cultural Achievement Award and had many retrospective exhibitions, including those at the Smithsonian, the Albertina, and the Library of Congress.