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Ferguson, Ken.
The Dragon Parade.
Publisher: Privately Printed, East Cramlington;
Date of Publication: 1986
Stock Code: 5722
SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Number 43 in a Limited Edition of only 250 copies. Quarto softcover, unpaginated. 14 full page plates of relief prints hand cut and printed by the Author,as called for, of which one double-page fold-out; with introductory text. Black spine with pictorial card covers and Author’s blind-stamp to front cover; order form bound-in to fore. Minor soiling to cream background. Contents clean and bright, and signed by the author to first leaf in pencil, with limitation number, below publishing details. A Near Fine copy. Scarce title featuring the Dragon Parade summer holiday project for children at Blyth in Northumberland in 1986. The project was funded by the Blyth Valley Council Arts Development Office and involved a series of workshops in dance, mask making and the construction of a giant carnival dragon with a willow and bamboo frame, which formed the heart of a procession through the town culminating with the play performed by the children in Ridley Park. £45.00