“Shinbone Alley” illustration

by George Wachsteter

$1,800 · Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers

Signed

No place: 1957. Pen and ink with Benday tinting on illustration board, image measuring 12.5 x 16.5 inches on board measuring 15 x 20 inches, matted to 17 x 21 inches. Signed “Wachsteter” in lower right image. Publisher’s pencil notes in margins, portion of original printing order sheet from the New York Journal American partially mounted and folded on verso, tissue overlay folded over verso for matting. Small, mostly marginal ink soiling at bottom.

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