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1 Anansi Company Ronald King Roy Fisher (poet) Artist edition London, $4,800 The seventh collaboration of artist and poet with thirteen screen printed removable wire and card puppets. The content of the book is based on material from Walter Jekyll s Jamaican Song and Story, This version is a modern rendering in verse by Roy Fisher of the familiar tales central to Caribbean culture, concerning Anansi the spider man and his company of friends. Introduction and accompanying verse printed letter-press in 14 & 18 pt Walbaum. 120 copies, 10 proofs one 8 pp section, thirteen 4 pp French-fold sections, and one 4 pp section (40 x 29 cm), all loosely inserted into card wraparound and held in large colour-blocked solander box. This book has images that inspired me in, metal, simple shapes and collage in my posters, and the use of puppets. Ronald King had been using wire in earlier books to emboss damp heavy pages which seems to led him to include wire puppets in this book. Both books are in the special collection library.

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3 Turn Over Darling By Ronald King Unlimited numbered edition. 20 x 15cm. Designed and drawn in wire on Khadi pure rag-made paper. Six drawings when folded and juxtaposed in sequence, make for eleven reclining nude images which change position from front to back view. In slipcase. Embossed and debossed images of a womanly figure reveal themselves as the reader dips through each page. Wire forms were pressed into the dampened sheets of each spread to create a delightful and lighthearted erotic sequence. $120 $175 Signed and Numbered Ronald King s images during the 70s were more complex with college effects and multiple layering of shapes and line.

4 Antony & Cleopatra By William Shakespeare. Guildford, England: Edition of x 32cm. Designed and produced by Ronald King with notes & introductory essay 'The Elusive Absolute' by Keith Please. Text in 10 pt Baskerville. Paper is pure rag-made 250 gsm. Velin Cuve Rives Blanc. 11 eight-page unstitched sections contained in a specially designed canvas cover portfolio. Production involved over 200 hand printings. In beige & blue folding box designed by Paul Haskell. A beautifully rendered edition of Shakespeare's play with King's own marginal notes and lustrous contemporary illustrations. $2400 (Last Copy)

5 From Ronald King s web site at Circle Press, we find his earlier poetry books that show his progress to his current works moving from silkscreen to letterpress though he also worked with some amazing etchings and college effects that influence him in his puppet books. We will see his images went from simple to complex and return to become more simple shapes. We also see a return to pop ups and alphabet books. Black Hole Off Crete Ronald King Keith Please (poet) Guildford, Poem and image printed silk screen and letter-press in Baskerville on the theme of a space walker. 200 copies 8 pp gate-fold on Glastonbury Book paper 19 x 30 cm stapled to sugar paper covers 100 signed on Velin Arches paper and sewn into mauve Strathmore card.

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7 A Walk Along the Shore, 1977, silk screen image and letterpress

8 Claim Claim Claim Ronald King Anthony Conran (poet) Guildford, The third book of contemporary poetry published by Circle Press. Six original screen prints and printed letter-press in 14 pt Modern by Des Jeffery in Suffolk. 250 copies signed by the artist 60 pp 30 x 25 cm on Glastonbury Book paper sewn into card cover with a green paper wrapper. Welsh poet Anthony Conran supplies the poetry, Ron King the images. Ron King, Cooking the Books: "My first collaboration with a contemporary poet whom I met through Ian [Tyson] (after an exhibition at Bangor University where Conran taught)." We recede from each other. The child distinguishes, the lover withdraws, the man of decision is afraid. It is twilight. Entropic dusk in the heavens. $125

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10 Ronald King José Neistein (text) Print portfolio Guildford, 1976 Out of print single prints available at 120 The first of three intended volumes with 10 hand-coloured etchings by Ronald King on the theme of a band of Brazilian cangaçeiros of the 20s and 30s led by the notorious Lampião. Introduction by José Neistein edition 1-25 plus 5 proofs loose in folder. 42 x 30 cms. We can see a sample of Ronald King s etchings was during his more complex renderings period. Etchings can be very time consuming and many copies to achieve perfection. I had to include these as a part of his history.

11 Another example of his etchings is Blind Date on his Circle Press web site.

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13 Ronald King s images from his early poetry and story books are very simple layering of shapes and using various methods of printing including lithographic and silk screen and letterpress text. Song of Solomon, 1968 screen print images

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18 The Prologue Ronald King Geoffrey Chaucer (poet) Artist edition Guildford, 1967 Out of print From Chaucer s Canterbury Tales - Originally produced for Editions Alecto, London; published by Circle Press with frontispiece and fourteen mask images titled and initialed in pencil - printed silk screen and letterpress in 24 pt Plantin. 125 signed copies, 15 proofs 50 x 37cm 15 unbound 4 pp sections in J. Green rag-made paper wraparound in blue cloth folder and canvas slip-case. Separate editions of 50 plus 5 proofs were made of all the images except Friar & Franklin onto J. Green paper 56 x 38 cm titled, numbered, and fully signed. (second edition, 1978).$500

19 More examples of using wire to emboss images onto paper. Circus Turn Ronald King

20 Bookwork London, Designed and printed in the same format as Turn Over Darling, A series of 6 double-sided blind-embossed images printed in wire, which, when folded and juxtaposed in sequence make eleven changing circus scenes. 75 signed copies (out of print) six 4 pp sections 20 x 15 cm on RWS hand-made paper and an unsigned, unlimited edition on Khadi Indian hand-made paper, both bound into orange hand-made paper covers and inserted into blue card slip-case.

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23 Another embossed into shapes Les Bijoux Ronald King C. Baudelaire & Kenneth White (poet) Fold out bookwork London, 1996 & 1998 (2nd edition) 150 A double-sided, blindembossed design drawn in wire with text printed letterpress in blue on one side, for the original French version, and in red on the reverse side, for the adaptation in English, by Kenneth White. 50 signed copies 70 x 56 cm printed onto a black hand-made sheet of Khadi Paper which folds in 12 sections to 28 x 15 cm between hard boards and fits into a pocket folder. (A second unsigned edition of 75 copies was published in 1998)