NO RESERVE Circle Press.- Fisher (Roy) & Ronald King. The Left-handed Punch, number 2 of 80 copies signed by the author and artist/printer (the printer's signature on one of the prints, this copy also signed and inscribed to Denis Collins by Ron King, printed in red, blue and black with silk-screen illustrations, 13 colour plates with captions in pencil including 10 cut-out puppets with movable parts, with photocopies of letter from Fisher to King concerning the concept of the book and King's response loosely inserted, bound in crimson goatskin over raised vertical strips, by Nancy Southworth and Clare Van Vliet, upper cover with rectangular window revealing title on wrapper below, "long stitch" binding with visible sewing to spine in black thread, uncut, original wrappers bound in, pencil note to rear endpaper "This is one of ?three bindings designed and executed by Nancy Southworth and Clare Van Vliet February 1988" with Denis Collins's ink stamp to verso, with prospectus in black cloth drop-back box with crimson label to spine titled in blind, folio (c.385 x 290mm.), Guildford, Circle Press, 1986.


⁂ A typically innovative and intriguing production from the Circle Press, the fifth collaboration between Roy Fisher and Ron King. The prospectus states that 15 copies were issued in the special binding but this is the only copy we have been able to trace.