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MICHAEL HAGUE.
The Boy and theVelveteen Rabbit.
Watercolor illustration for The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real. 370x600
mm; 14
3
/
4
x23
1
/
2
inches. Signed lower left. Matted and framed. NewYork: Holt, Rinehart
andWinston, 1983.
[1,500/2,500]
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KATHLEEN HALE.
Mish-Mash [Orlando the Marmalade Cat].
Black and orange crayon. 315x210 mm; 12
1
/
2
x8
3
/
4
inches, sheet. Two illustrations on a
single sheet for a story distributed only to Arab nations duringWorldWar II. Signed with
initials in the upper right hand corner of the top picture. Matted.
[1,000/1,500]
Hale created Orlando the Marmalade Cat in 1938. “Early in the war,” she recalled in her
autobiography A Slender Reputation (1994), “I had been commissioned to write an Orlando
serial ... I invented some further Orlando adventures especially to be translated into Arabic.
The cat was called ‘Mish-Mash,’ which I understood was Arabic for ‘apricot,’ since marmalade
was unknown in those countries. I humbly felt I was contributing in some way to the war
effort.” A proof of the Arabic text is affixed between the two pictures.
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KATHLEEN HALE.
Mish-Mash [Orlando the Marmalade Cat].
Black and orange crayon. Sheet 315x210 mm; 12
1
/
2
x8
3
/
4
inches. Two illustrations on a
single sheet for a story distributed to only Arab nations duringWorldWar II. Signed with
initials in the lower left hand corner of the bottom picture. Matted.
[1,000/1,500]
A proof of the Arabic text is affixed between the two pictures.
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