Lot 495: Basil Ivan Rakoczi (1908-1979) The Caged and the Free Privately printed by the ?Friends of the White Stag?, Paris, 1955, at the expense of the

Basil Ivan Rakoczi (1908-1979) The Caged and the Free Privately printed by the ?Friends of the White Stag?, Paris, 1955, at the expense of the author?s friends. A beautifully presented folio of poems and prose by Rakoczi, illustrated with two-tone lithographs admidst the text and with SEVEN COLOUR LITHOGRAPHS and FOUR PROOF LITHOGRAPHS, each SIGNED and inscribed, laid in at rear. The text appears in both English and French, translated by Bernard Citroen. LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, plus an extra five (lettered A to E) reserved for those who colloaborated in making this folio. This copy is lettered ?E? (as are the seven prints and the four proofs) and was given to the translator Bernard Citroen. Folio; in papered boards with spine label, unstitched (as issued) and in a matching slipcase. An extremely rare publication, with only one copy recorded in a public collection (the V & A in London).