Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 130

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(JANUS PRESS.) Finney, Charles G. The Circus of Doctor Lao. Printed in Monotype Plantin composed at the Stinehour Press. Relief etchings with pochoir by Claire Van Vliet, includes triple fold-out leaves (pages 7-16). Folio, original pictorial cloth with vellum spine containing windows exposing binding threads; preserved in pictorial clamshell box, some scuffing; both designed by Jim Bicknell. Norman J. Sondheim bookplate. (Newark), Vt., 1984
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number 24 of 150 copies signed by finney and van vliet. a fine copy of one of the most impressive modern american private press books and the seventy-fifth publication of the janus press. Finney's novel was the basis for the 1964 film, The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, directed by pioneering animator George Pal.