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Oneonta, NY: Round House Press. Fine with no dust jacket. c.1987. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Print. Seven art prints from blocks and plates, some with letterpress text over-printed on the image. All are from Round House Press, the imprint of the collegiate printing lab of Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY. Founded in the 1980s, the press issues letterpress books, broadsides, and art prints from wood block, linoleum block, and intaglio collagraphy. The seven prints are as follows: Print 1. Quotation about war, by Dalton Trumbo, noted screenwriter who was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. From Dalton's Johnny Got His Gun, written in 1939: "To fight that war they would need men and if men saw the future they wouldn't fight. So they were masking the future they were keeping the future a soft quiet secret. They knew that if all the little guys saw the future they would begin to ask questions. They would ask questions and they would find answers."… Read More

New York: Private Printing. Fine with no dust jacket. 1976. Limited Signed Edition. Softcover. The artist's abstract and quite varied series of 43 drawings of flags, all printed monochrome on the recto of pages. Kingsley Parker has been exhibiting and represented by galleries since the mid-1970s and has a work in the collection of the Museum Of Modern Art in New York, NY. The artist is quite active with new works. Signed in ink "K. Parker/1976 ©" in the front matter where Parker explains his motivation for drawing the series of abstract flags. Copy 158 of a limited edition of 600, numbered in the colophon. Approximately 44 pages, unpaginated. Printed on fine, machine-made paper in brown wraps. The title and a flag drawing are framed on the front cover. In absolutely clean, Fine condition. ; Drawings; Square 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 44 pages; Signed by Artist .