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TONY CHEN.
Raccoon Family in Snow.Watercolor, ink
and wash on board. 356x508 mm; 14x20
inches. Signed in image, lower right. From
“Little Raccoon” by Suzanne Noguere,
illustrated by Chen. New York: Holt,
Rinehart andWinston, 1981.
[800/1,200]
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HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY.
“The farmer crossed the plowed strip to Saxon, and joined her on the rail.” Ink,
watercolor, and gouache on board. 991x749 mm; 39x29
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inches. Signed in full, lower
left. Illustration for the first appearance of Jack London’s novel “TheValley of the Moon,”
Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 1913, page 464. Contemporary wooden frame.
[5,000/7,500]
TheValley of the Moon was serialized in Cosmopolitan fromApril through December, 1913 and issued
in book form the same year.This classic London story features his favorite themes: a working-class couple
who flee the labor unrest and the economic and spiritual poverty of Oakland, California for the peace and
honesty of country life.They ultimately find their paradise, theValley of the Moon, in the Sonoma hills.
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