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GARTHWILLIAMS.
Little House
on the Prairie.
Original ink drawing for the dust jacket cover
to Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls
Wilder. 210x148 mm; 8
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4
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8
, image, on
illustration board,matted adjacent to paste-up
text lettering for spine and front panels that
would fit around the image,Williams’s inked
initials in mat window below image,
professionally framed in archival acrylic and
burnished gold wood frame. Circa 1953.
[30,000/40,000]
AsWilliams’s images were reproduced directly from
pencil sketches, this may be the only ink drawing
by him for this work.The British born illustrator
was able to capture the feel, characters, and country
of the Wilder family’s Kansas by accompanying
Laura IngallsWilder on a 6-month trip to research
his drawings. Purchased at auction by the current
owner from the Estate of GarthWilliams.
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