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Modern + Contemporary + Design | October 13, 2022

Thu, Oct 13, 2022 09:00AM EDT
Lot 239

Three 1979 Circle Press Publications Titles

Estimate: $300 - $500

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

all published Guildford: Circle Press, 1979, including: Blind Date by John Furnival (artist, born 1933) and Thomas Meyer (text), number 140 of 300 copies signed by the artist, containing ten etchings in black with embossing on wove paper initialed lower right, with additional etching signed "John Furnival" and titled "Omphale goes out walking", cloth backed boards and slip case; Red Bird by Christopher Logue (text) and John Christie (artist), number 165 of 300 copies signed by the artist and author, containing 10 screen prints initialed lower right, with additional print numbered, titled, and signed "165/300/"Notes 1"/John Christie", cloth backed boards and slip case; The Camera Never Lies by Michael Peel, number 16 of 300 copies signed by the artist, 15 mounted photographs on both black and white leaves, with text in facsimile writing printed in white on black, with sepia-tone silver gelatin print, titled, signed and numbered by Peel in ink in lower margin, laid in, bound in leather, housed in slip case .

Provenance: Property of a Georgia Institution

Condition

all very good overall, minimal wear to extremities; Peel with some creasing to additional print laid in, some staining to leather