Sale 2495 - Illustration Art, December 6, 2018

27 c MARILEE HEYER. “Nimar.” Illustration for page 21 of Heyer’s book “The Forbidden Door” (New York: Viking Kestrel, 1988). Watercolor and pencil on board. 415x315 mm; 16 1 / 4 x12 1 / 4 inches. Signed with monogram in lower right image and in full on verso. [700/1,000] “The Forbidden Door” was written around a series of fantasy drawings Heyer created at Lucasfilm Ltd. in the 1980s while she was working on “Return of the Jedi.” The watercolors were later submitted to Viking Press where they were enthusiastically received and prompted a book proposal. 28 c MARGARET and FLORENCE HOOPES. Small Archive. Together, four original drawings published in “The Alice and Jerry Books” series (Evanston, IL: Row, Peterson, and Company, 1939), and two drawings intended for a later edition. Watercolor over graphite on board. Each board measures 311x287 mm; 12 1 / 4 x9 inches. Unsigned. Accompanied by a copy of a letter to Margaret Hoopes from Editor in Chief Edward M. Tuttle, dated June 28, 1939; a photocopy of a Western Union telegraph from Tuttle to the Hoope sisters, dated November 8, 1939; two copies of “If I were Going” by Mabel O’Donnell (Evanston, IL: Row, Peterson and Company, 1941) and one copy of “The New Through the Green Gate” by Mabel O’Donnell (Evanston, IL: Row, Peterson and Company, 1950). [800/1,200] The published images include “It Happened in Lapland,” page 63 and “If I Were Going Again,” page 329 of “If I Were Going.” “Three Boys Running,” page 17 and “Boy on Horse,” page 39 of “The New Through the Green Gate.” 27 28