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LUDWIG BEMELMANS.
“The whale said,‘Too bad—life in the ocean is very iffy....’”
Watercolor and ink on paper with the figures of the two seals cut out and affixed to the
image. 450x560 mm; 17
1
/
2
x22 inches. Illustration for Marina, NewYork:Viking Press, 1962.
Rubber-stamped lower right “L. Bemelmans.” Image sunned with some tape residue from
where the copy was affixed to the paper.
[2,500/3,500]
Bemelmans won the Caldecott Medal for
Madeline’s Rescue (1953). Marina is a lesser
known but no less delightful picture book about the
rescue of a baby seal from a shark by six clown por-
poises. On August 19, 1961, Bemelmans wrote his
friend Elizabeth Weicker that he thought Marina
was “about the best story for kids I have written
next to Madeline.”
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LUDWIG BEMELMANS.
Small Beer.
Illustrated throughout by Bemelmans. 8vo,
gilt-pictorial orange cloth; all edges trimmed
and stained orange; publisher’s slipcase, a little
rubbed.New York: Viking, 1929
[600/900]
NUMBER
139
OF
175
COPIES OF THE FIRST
DELUXE EDITION SIGNED BY BEMELMANS
,
AND
WITH AN ORIGINAL INK AND WATERCOLOR
DRAWING
,
titled “Father and Daughter.”
Pomerance A39a.
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