Jan 22, 2015 - Sale 2372

Sale 2372 - Lot 174

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JAMES MARSHALL.
"Readers Only." Watercolor, pen, and ink. 224x184 mm; 8 3/4x7 1/4 inches. Sketch for the Reading is Fundamental campaign. Signed and dated lower right and inscribed to Bob and Lydia Hale within book cover illustration in image; verso dated "Mansfield Hollow. Jan 31, `86" by Marshall. With an Autographed Letter Signed by Marshall to the Hales presenting this work to them and stating he "thinks he likes it better than the finished piece." Single 8vo page, Mansfield Center, CT., 4 March 1986. Formerly in the collection of Robert and Lydia Hale.