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Property of Frieda Hughes

Peter Stark, Arthur Boyd, and others | Private press poems and illustrations, and print of figures embracing

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July 19, 04:14 PM GMT

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400 - 600 GBP

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Property of Frieda Hughes


Peter Stark, Arthur Boyd, and others


Private press poems and illustrations, and print of figures embracing


i) Peter Stark—Arthur Boyd, Tomorrow's Ghosts. Guildford: Circle Press Publications, 1971. LIMITED EDITION, NUMBER 16 OF 50 UNBOUND COPIES, folio (585 x 395mm.), 14 letterpress poems signed by Peter Stark, 5 (of 14) etched illustrations signed by Arthur Boyd, original wrappers, original purple half-calf folder, lacking illustrations 6-14, dampstained at extremities (not affecting illustrations), folder splitting and rubbed at extremities;


ii) Sylvia Plath—Michael Rothenstein, "The Moon and the Yew Tree", [1972]. Folio (555 x 375mm.), half-title, text leaf, colour woodcut and linocut illustration on separate leaf signed by the artist Michael Rothenstein, dampstained at corners;


iii) Print by unidentified artist depicting two figures embracing, 420 x 254mm., gold-coloured card mount, pencil annotations on verso of mount ("See Me" and "Keetch [?] GB"), some browning, mount dampstained at extremities