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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.

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… Read More

San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1980, 1980. First edition in a fine designer binding by Sün Evrard. First edition. In fine condition.. 8vo, white calf spine, blue morocco boards with narrow white and red rule inlays, title in blue on a narrow white leather label. Enclosed in a quarter morocco clamshell box. 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. This binding bears Evrard's blind-stamped name on the front paste-down and blind-stamped "FIE" on the rear paste-down. On the colophon page, Evrard has neatly struck through in pencil the statement that the binding was by Cardoza-James of San Francisco (who were the binders for… Read More

(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.

(London:) Drawn, etch'd & pub.by Dighton, Charing Cross, April, 1799, 1799. The earliest recorded portrait of Thomas John Dibdin. NCBEL III, 1129-30. One crease; in fine condition. Rare.. Hand-colored etching, 20.5 x 16.5 cm, with the caption "Sans Souci, Jun." With the portrait is the manuscript note: "This Portrait of myself / taken in the palmy days of white neckcloths and frills / when I was, as you see, rather younger than at present, is presented / by Thomas Dibdin April 28, 1841." Around the image of Dibdin are depictions of his plays and songs. A fine portrait of the actor and writer, Thomas John Dibdin (1771-1841), who like the other famous thespian Dibdins, was involved in the English theater from an early age. Thomas John was one of three illegitimate children of Charles Dibdin and actress Harriet Pitt, and in his early years on stage he used the name "T. Merchant" and his writings were published anonymously, a fact that the artist Dighton makes a playful reference to in giving the… Read More