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FLEISCHER STUDIOS
(MARJORIE HENDERSON BUELL).
Group of 12 illustrations for “Marge’s Little
Lulu;HerTrain Ride to Grandma’s.”Original
pen and ink designs each with hand-colored
tissue overlays, comprising title vignette and
11 full-page illustrations. Each 225x190 mm;
8
3
/
4
x7
1
/
2
inches, image; book title and date
(“April 1946”) captioned in the margin with
printer’s notations; occasional creasing or
light chipping to overlay corners. Housed in
later cloth-backed folding portfolio.
[4,000/6,000]
Designs done for the first of six Little Lulu
volumes. Buell created her famous Little Lulu
character in 1935, first forThe Saturday Evening
Post as a single uncaptioned cartoon, then
beginning in 1944 as a daily syndicated comic
strip. The drawings are accompanied by a First
Edition of the book (Springfield, Mass.: McLoughlin Bros., 1946) that bears Buell’s name on the
copyright page, though it is quite likely that the present designs are the work of Fleischer studio artists
rather than Buell herself, and are perhaps based on one of Paramount Pictures cartoon shorts.With 4-
page illustrated publisher’s announcement.