Sale 2495 - Illustration Art, December 6, 2018

116 c JESS MARSH and JAKE LEE. “Farewell, Sweet Princess.” Unique hand-illustrated book created for Judy Heaslip (Biggs), with the front endpaper titled and dated May 10, 1953. Cover illustration and nine interior illustrations all watercolor and ink with typed story captions. Oblong folio with hand-painted boards with metal binding ties. 229x305 mm; 9x12 inches. [800/1,200] A wonderful association piece by three mid-20th Century American illustrators. This charming book was created for Judy, the daughter of famed aviation illustrator William Heaslip, presumably upon her graduation from college and off to “the big city.” Her father’s admiring and tenderhearted friends, the California-based illustrators Jesse Marsh and the Chinese-American Jake Lee collaborated to create vignettes featuring Judy in a number of scenarios presented in cautionary rhyming verse such as: “Don’t get run over by horses cars / Don’t be coaxed into a saloon / If you frequent those rude and coarse bars / I can forsee your early doom.”