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San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1980, 1980. First edition in a fine designer binding by Eleanore E. Ramsey of San Francisco. First edition. In fine condition.. 8vo, olive green morocco wrap-around binding with a magnetic closure on the upper board, designs tooled with oasis and morocco inlays, spine title tooled in white. David Belch, proprietor of the Scarab Press and well-known biblio-bon vivant of the San Francisco Bay Area (circa 1960s-2010), commissioned several fine binders to design and produce bindings on his publication Printing Poetry by Clifford Burke, that he had published to wide acclaim in 1980. Eleanore E. Ramsey, one of the most celebrated designer hand book binders of her generation, was a logical choice for one of the commissions. Holograph statement laid in from Ramsey, dated "2/93" describing her work on the binding, which was in early 1993, with the final note "Binder requests permission to show the book in eventual retrospective exhibition and to be contacted on change of…
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Printing Poetry. A Workbook in Typographic Reification
by [DESIGNER BINDING]. [Burke, Clifford]
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Printing Poetry. A Workbook in Typographic Reification
by [DESIGNER BINDING]. [Burke, Clifford]
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- Used - Fine copy enclosed in a clamshell case.
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- First edition in a fine designer binding by Louise Genest
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San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1980, 1980. First edition in a fine designer binding by Louise Genest. First edition. Fine copy enclosed in a clamshell case.. 8vo, brown morocco (Oasis goatskin), inlaid decorative letters, 3-D pop-up on the upper and lower board, colored edges. David Belch, proprietor of the Scarab Press and well-known biblio-bon vivant of the San Francisco Bay Area (circa 1960s-2010), commissioned several fine binders to design and produce bindings on Printing Poetry by Clifford Burke, that he had published to wide acclaim in 1980. Three of the binders were Sün Evrard of La Celle Les Bordes, France; Louise Genest of Outremont, Quebec; and Eleanore E. Ramsey of San Francisco. Enclosed is Genest's statement about the design of the binding, signed and dated October 26, 2003, with the receipt for her fee: $3,500.00.
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Venetian Printers: A Conversation on the Fourth Day of the Bibliographical Decameron of Thomas Frognall Dibdin, with Annotations
by DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL
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- First separate edition, one of 223 copies
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(Mt. Vernon, New York: Privately Printed by William Rudge for Bruce Rogers, 1924.), 1924. First separate edition, one of 223 copies. Jackson, Dibdin, 42; Windle & Pippin, Dibdin, A Bibliography, A30; Warde, Bruce Rogers, 185. Fine copy, enclosed in a cloth chemise.. Folio, original decorated wrappers, 16 pages. An imaginary conversation between four characters, Lysander, Philemon, Lisardo and Almansa, who discuss merits of seven early Venetian printers. This originally appeared in Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron and is here handsomely printed for Bruce Rogers, with the addition of his annotations and "Printer's Note" about the type used. Leather bookplate of W. Van R. Whithall inside the front wrapper.
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