Aldin, Cecil (1870 - 1935): ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR THE DUSTWRAPPER OF THE JOKER AND JERRY AGAIN BY ELEANOR HELME AND NANCE PAUL

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. c.1936

Black ink on ivorine, image size 7” by 9”. The illustration, depicting a pony (the eponymous Jerry) and a dog, appeared, with the addition of colour to the titles, as the dustwrapper for the first edition of this book. A very attractive piece with notes in Aldin’s hand concerning the colouring of the titles which are currently hidden by the mount. Together with the front panel of the dustwrapper it was to become.

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Aldin, Cecil (1870 - 1935): SCOTTIE PUPPY

Original Artwork later published by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London. c.1928

Pencil, pastel and watercolour on ivorine, image size 4.75” by 3.75”. Mounted, framed and glazed. A delightful image, SIGNED by Aldin to bottom left corner. The published image appears as the frontispiece in Aldin’s 1928 book ‘A Dozen Dogs or So’.

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Dulac, Edmund (1882 - 1953): PEW’S DEATH

c. 1927

Watercolour and Gouache on paper. Published in 1927 by Ernest Benn in the UK and Charles Scribners Sons for the first Dulac edition of Treasure Island. This illustration reproduced opposite page 46. Mounted, Framed and Glazed. Provenance: Charles Scribners Sons, Original label to the reverse.

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Dulac, Edmund (1882 - 1953): THE MAN OF THE ISLAND

c.1927

Watercolour and Gouache on paper. Published in 1927 by Ernest Benn in the UK and Charles Scribners Sons for the first Dulac edition of Treasure Island. This illustration reproduced opposite page 118. Mounted, Framed and Glazed. Provenance: Charles Scribners Sons, Original label to the reverse.

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Evans, Treyor: ORIGINAL FAIRY PAINTING

c. 1940

Gouache, Watercolour and ink on card. Mounted, framed and glazed. Measuring 9 inches x 7 inches.

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Haring, Keith (1958 - 1990): ORIGINAL DRAWING ON AN ARMANI TIE

1983

A red Giorgio Armani cotton tie. Surrounding the Armani logo Haring has drawn (in black ink) a figure with both arms in the air. SIGNED and dated. Provenance : From the collection of Eric Goode, owner of the legendary eighties hot spot Area, NYC.

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Kavan, Anna (Jeremy Reed): ANNA KAVAN: AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE

York: Lucius / Punk Daisy Publications. 2005

First edition, first printing. One of 950 soft-cover copies. Original pictorial stapled wrappers. A Fine copy. 43 pages, printed in full colour throughout with text by Jeremy Reed. The catalogue is of a recently discovered body of original artwork by Anna including gouache and oil paintings, sketches and original manuscripts published here for the first time.

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Kavan, Anna (Jeremy Reed): ANNA KAVAN: AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE

York: Lucius / Punk Daisy Publications. 2005

First edition, first printing. One of 50 hardcover copies numbered and SIGNED by the author, Kavan scholar Jeremy Reed. A Fine copy. 43 pages, printed in full colour throughout. The catalogue is of a recently discovered body of original artwork by Anna including gouache and oil paintings, sketches and original manuscripts published here for the first time.

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Kennedy, A. E. (Attributed to): GIVE ME A HUG

c.1940

Gouache and Watercolour on card. Measuring 10.5 inches x 5 inches. Mounted. Published by Birn Brothers with their stamp and page number that the illustration appears on to the reverse. A lovely image of a golliwogg being hugged by a young girl whilst fairies watch.

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Kennedy, A. E. (Attributed to): THE NEW DOLL

c. 1940

Gouache and Watercolour on card. Measuring 10.5 inches x 5 inches. Mounted. Published by Birn Brothers with their stamp and page number that the illustration appears on to the reverse. A lovely of a young girl with a new doll and poor Golliwogg being cast aside. Ahh!

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Milligan, Spike: MILLIGAN’S ARK

London: M & J Hobbs. 1971

First edition, first printing. Original laminated pictorial boards in dustwrapper. A NEAR FINE copy in a VERY GOOD edge-worn and creased slightly dusty dustwrapper with a short closed tear at the head of the spine. Not price-clipped and without inscriptions or stamps.

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Milne, A. A. & E. H. Shepard: ALS FROM MILNE CONCERNING WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING OF PIGLET, SIGNED BY SHEPARD

Unpublished. 1924

A superb two side autograph letter from A. A. Milne concerning the soon to be published ‘When We Were Very Young’. On Milne’s Mallord Street, Chelsea notepaper with house number corrected by hand from 11 to 13 (as called for). Dated 28th September ‘Dear Miss Tristran, There is no reason why I shouldn’t tell you - and only holiday reasons why I haven’t already told you - that the verses will be published by Methuen at the end of October. As it happens they were really written for this purpose, an...

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Munnings, Sir Alfred: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR ALFRED MUNNINGS COMPRISING : AN ARTIST’S LIFE, THE SECOND BURST & THE FINISH

London : The Museum Press Ltd. 1950/51/52

First edition. Three Volumes. First printings of volumes one and three, second impression of volume two. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPIES to “a brother artist and fellow Royal Academy member Cosmo Clarke”. Publisher’s red cloth, gilt titles to the spine. All three volumes complete with dustwrappers. 490 illustrations by the author. A VERY GOOD set with VERY GOOD lightly rubbed and marked, but complete dustwrappers. Each volume with a signed presentation inscription of at least a full page in length...

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Peake, Mervyn (Graham Greene): A POSTCARD WITH DRAWING FROM PEAKE TO GRAHAM GREENE (ALS)

1943

A Postcard with black and white picture on the front of boats in a harbour at St. Ives. Peake has drawn a dragon at the top of one of the boat’s mast. The inscription by Peake to the reverse talks about where he is staying, saying it is perfect for working and that he is ‘Grimming hard’ (at the time Peake was working on the illustrations to Grimm’s Household Tales, and asks for the manuscript to be sent to where he is staying). Greene was Director at the publishers Eyre and Spottiswoode, who wh...

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Rackham, Arthur (1867 - 1939): THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD

c. 1929

Pen, ink and watercolour on paper. Image measures 6 inches x 6 inches. Published in 1929 by George G. Harrap. This illustration is reproduced in black and white on page 111 of the published book. Mounted, framed and glazed.

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