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Kristen Rasmussens personlige exlibris.
Kristen Rasmussens personlige exlibris. (Entirely handwritten book with nice binding).
Copenhagen, self-'published', 1959-1960. Three-quarter morocco with marbled boards and endpapers. 62 deckle-edged leaves of handmade paper written on one side in blue ink, and illustrated with many pasted-in bookplates (partly erotic) and some photos from Rasmussen's library. With a bookplate drawn by hand in ink by H.C.B. = Barenhold. According to the title page written in three copies; this is no. 1 with a bookplate by Kristen Rasmussen on the inside upper cover. 4 loose bookplates. Spine faded, boards possibly slightly browned.
Inserted is a three-page handwritten letter in Danish from Svend Rindholt to 'Kare Kristen [Rasmussen]', dated 7/2 1960. In 1970 a printed book by Rindholt about collector Rasmussen's personal bookplates was published. Strikingly beautiful book binding. Kristen Rasmussen (1901-1984) was a great Danish collector and enthusiast of bookplates. A most attractive specially made personal book - maybe one can call it a book by an artist roué for a roué collector, this in a time when erotica were still frowned on. Bookplates by a.o. H.C. Bärenholdt, Jan Batterman, Charles Gl. Behrens, Chr. Blaesbjerg, Peter Fingesten, Pam G. Rueter, Mark Severin, Ctibor Stastny, Enrico Vannuccini, and Italo Zetti.