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PEG MALTBY.
A toast to cherries and wine. Likely a drawing for “Peg’s Fairy Book,” published in 1944.
Watercolor, pen and ink on board, heightened in white. 279x184 mm; 11x7
1
/
4
inches, on
17
1
/
2
x13
1
/
4
-inch board. Signed “P. Maltby” in lower right image. Small area of foxing in
lower image. Mounted to matte.
[2,000/3,000]
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ARNOLD LOBEL.
Dance of theThirteen Skeletons. Original
illustration for page 36 of “Nightmares:
Poems to Trouble Your Sleep” by Jack
Prelutsky, published by Greenwillow Books
in 1976. Pen and ink on thick paper.
165x121 mm;6
1
/
2
x4
3
/
4
inches,on 14
1
/
2
x11
1
/
4
-
inch sheet. Not signed. Upper edge toning,
soiling and abrasions on verso, tape on verso
from prior matting.
[600/900]
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THOMAS MACKENZIE.
“He saw Cairilin Ni Murrachu walking a
little way in front.” Illustration for page 99
of “The Crock of Gold” by J. Stephens,
published by Macmillan in 1926.Watercolor
and pencil on board. 387x254 mm; 15
1
/
4
x10
inches, on 21x14
3
/
4
-inch board. Signed and
dated“Thomas Mackenzie, [19]25” in lower
left image. Faint foxing. Matted.
[3,000/5,000]
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