[Rarebooks] FS: Isadora Duncan & Gordon Craig

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_Isadora Duncan & Gordon Craig: The Prose & Poetry of Action_. 

San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 1988. Series: _The Book
Club of California Publications_, Number 189. 

8vo. 10 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches. xvii, 138, [2] pp. Double-page title page
printed with blue and black inks, with a two-color vignette, 8 plates
printed offset by David Holman, bibliography, index; text clean,
un-marked. Spine covered in white cloth, blue-green cloth over boards,
plain white paper dust-jacket; binding square and tight, jacket toned
along the spine. Original prospectus in its original mailing envelope
laid in. Very Good. 

$ 30 

LIMITED EDITION of 450 copies produced by W. Thomas Taylor in Austin,
Texas and bound by Austin BookLab; printed in Perpetua monotype on
machine made paper. "This attractively produced study of the love affair
and collaboration of two of the leading influences on modern dance and
the theater utilizes the Craig collection at the _Bibliotheque
Nationale_ and material in the Duncan family archives. Several of the
illustrations have not been previously published." Harlan. REFERENCE:
Harlan, _The Two Hundredth Book_, No. 189. 

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