Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 163

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(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, a touch of rubbing along edges; both designed by Jim Bicknell. With two specimen sheets (pages 27 and 30) laid in. (Newark), Vt., 1984

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number 57 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 75th 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.