Jan 23, 2014 - Sale 2337

Sale 2337 - Lot 258

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JAMES THURBER.
Four amusing illustrations for Charles Kingsley's poem "The Sands o'Dee" as published in The New Yorker Magazine. Ink on paper. Published in the feature "Famous Poems Illustrated" on March 25, 1939, a copy of this issue supplied. Each drawing was placed above a six-line stanza in the final printing. 279x216 mm; 11x8 1/2 or smaller. Signed, lower left on the final drawing; three with faint preliminary drawings on verso. Moderate glue stains on versos. Includes original boards on which each was mounted.