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| x | 8. | Garth Williams | 1912-1996 | x | |||||||
| x | Stuart Little pushing a ping-pong ball. | x | |||||||||
| x | ÒStuart soon learned to chase balls, and it was a great sight to see him come out from under a hot radiator, pushing a Ping-pong ball with all his might...Ó Book illustration: Stuart Little, by E. B. White; Publisher: (Harper and Brothers), 1945, Chap. II p. 7: ÒHome ProblemsÓ Pen & ink, white gouache, 2.5 x 4", not signed | x | |||||||||
| x | $23,500 | x | |||||||||
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| x | Condition - Very good, light surface soil; notations in margins in pencil, including red line running at image edge. | x | |||||||||
| x | It hardly needs to be mentioned that Stuart Little is one of the great classics of children's literature, groundbreaking in its use of a very down-to-earth, realistic writing style to bring feasibility to a completely impossible story of a mouse born to a human family, and who drives an invisible car, but in the course of the book, Stuart becomes, for the reader, Everyman who has been afraid, been in love, and been yearning for adventure. E. B. White's unlikely achievement is aided and abetted by his choice of illustrators, Garth Williams, who also illustrated White's Charlotte's Web. Other drawings for this book have sold at Illustration House auctions as follows: $19,800 in 2000; $18,000 in 2004, and $18,400 in 2006. All of these included much smaller renderings of Stuart thatn the drawing being offered today. | x | |||||||||
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