Letter to a Lexicographer

San Francisco, CA [i.e.: Los Angeles, CA]: [Edwin Carpenter, n.d. [1960].

Pamphlet. 6 5/8 x 4 7/16 inches. [ii], 9 pp. Title page printed in pink, blue, and black inks, 3 soldier decorations in blue and 2 decorations in pink on title page, decorative initial in red and pink inks, tailpiece of typographic ornaments in pink; text clean, unmarked. Buff wraps, front cover echoes the title page printed in pink and blue, stitched; binding square and tight. SCARCE. EE516-280. Fine.

SECOND EDITION printed by Saul Marks, Cheney designed and set up the title-page and the two-page preface. Marks then printed in offset the new material and original setting of the text. This pamphlet contains a fictitious correspondence between E. de Fumier and M. Cambronne regarding a scatological term, "sh*t." Laid in is a printed slip, "Edwin Carpenter thanks Messrs. de Fumier & Cambronne for allowing him to present copies of this essay to members of the Roxburghe & Zamorano clubs at their joint meeting, September, 1960.

REFERENCES: Harmsen and Tabor, The Plantin Press, No. 170; Jones, A Los Angeles Typesticker, No. 31. 18 copies OCLC; at the time of writing, only one copy currently in the online marketplaces.