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Basil Ivan Rákóczi (1908-1979)
SONG BOOK OF IDIOT BOY and THE CAGED AND THE FREE
limited edition publication; (no 287 from an edition of 300)
A L’Enseigne du Cerf Blanc, Paris, 1953. Limited to 300 copies, of which this is no. 287. Signed by Rákóczi on colophon.
Printed in a sequence of folded pages, each with a poem to the right and a linocut illustration to the left. Twelve poems
and illustrations plus title-page, frontispiece and colophon, loose in a printed portfolio as issued. Also with The Caged
and the Free, privately printed by the “Friends of the White Stag”, Paris, 1955, at the expense of the author’s friends. A
beautifully presented folio of poems and prose by Rákóczi, illustrated with two-tone lithographs amidst the text and
with seven colour lithographs and four proof lithographs, each signed and inscribed, laid in at rear.
€300-€500 (£220-£370 approx. approx.)
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 76IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 28 SEPTEMBER 2015