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Red Bird: Love Poems by Logue, Christopher, John Christie, and Pablo Neruda - 1979

by Logue, Christopher, John Christie, and Pablo Neruda

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Red Bird: Love Poems by Logue, Christopher, John Christie, and Pablo Neruda - 1979

Red Bird: Love Poems

by Logue, Christopher, John Christie, and Pablo Neruda

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[Guildford, Surrey]: Circle Press, 1979. Limited Edition number 300 of 300. Slipcased. Fine/Near Fine. [43] pages : color illustrations ; 40 cm. Large folio. Book consists of eleven unbound bifolate sheets (40 x 32 cm on Somerset Book mould-made paper) and a single leaf with full page color screenprint titled: "Notes 1" signed with full name by John Christie; all laid into a chemise of oatmeal colored cloth over boards, with red and brown lettering to spine. Chemise with contents is contained in slipcase of brown linen over boards." Signed by Christopher Logue and John Christie on the the limitation page. Condition of all contents is fine throughout; slipcase shows minor wear to the extremities else fine. Ten screen prints, each initialed in pencil by John Christie, ("JC") accompany love poems written by Christopher Logue (based upon the verse of Pablo Neruda). Edition also includes a single sheet, full page color screen print: "Notes 1", numbered, titled and signed by John Christie. Text is printed letterpress in 18 pt Baskerville on heavyweight folio size Somerset mould-made paper. From the limited edition of 300 numbered copies of which this is copy number 300 of 300.
  • Bookseller DuBois Rare Books US (US)
  • Format/Binding Slipcased
  • Book Condition Used - Fine
  • Jacket Condition Near Fine
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition Limited Edition number 300 of 300
  • Publisher Circle Press
  • Place of Publication [Guildford, Surrey]
  • Date Published 1979

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Red Bird.: Love Poems based on the Spanish of Pablo Neruda.

by LOGUE, Christopher - CHRISTIE, John

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Guildford: Circle Press Publications,, 1979. First edition, number 212 of 300 numbered copies signed by Christie and Logue on the limitation page, the frontispiece signed in pencil by Christie, numbered lower left and titled lower middle, the other screenprints initialled lower right by Christie. Earlier versions of Logue's poems were first published in Merlin in Paris 1955 and as The Man Who Told His Love, in London in 1958. Folio. Unbound in wrappers, printed on 300 gsm Somerset rag-made paper, contained in a grey cloth chemise with titles to spine in red and burgundy. All housed in publisher's brown silk slipcase. Illustrated with a screenprinted frontispiece and 10 others throughout the text by Christie. Light rubbing to corners of slipcase, otherwise in excellent condition.
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