Item #19991 Raymond Duncan: Printer, Expatriate, Eccentric Artist. Adela Spindler Roatcap.

Raymond Duncan: Printer, Expatriate, Eccentric Artist

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1991. First Edition, Limited to 400 copies. 8vo. 56 pp. Illustrations. bibliography. Printed at the Hillside Press. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Terra cotta cloth with printed paper label on spine and front cover. A fine copy. Item #19991

The first book devoted to the life and achievements of a famous San Francisco expatriate and brother of famed Isadora Duncan. Printing was Duncan's favored occupation; he claimed to have designed his own typeface, echoing the style and the proportions of lapidary Greek letter-forms.

Price: $50.00

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