Autumn Premier Auction
Saturday, November 20 , 2004, 1:00 pm



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Lots in the Autumn Premier Sale
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Please note that lots with º following the lot number are those in which IH holds an interest.

Lot 1 Einar Kverne Calendar illustration: Aircraft above celebratory New York harbor.
Lot 2 William Cotton Magazine cover: Woman asks election official to hold groceries as she enters polling booth.
Lot 3 Edward Sorel Editorial illustration: U.S. Presidents at the gym.
Lot 4 Winsor McCay Newspaper editorial cartoon: Dinosaur and cavemen set upon by the modern world.
Lot 5 Ernest Hamlin Baker Magazine cover: Inventions and inventors who changed history.
Lot 6 Paul M. Swisher Mural painting: Woman telephone operator at switchboard.
Lot 7 Noel Sickles Seven illustrations: Scenes from the life of Abraham Lincoln.
Lot 8 Robert Fawcett Story illustration: Young woman interrogated.
Lot 9 No Lot
Lot 10 Walter M. Baumhofer Story illustration: Beautiful young woman blowing out candle on birthday cake.
Lot 11 Reginald F. Bolles Magazine cover: Older man with string tied to his finger.
Lot 12 Henry A. "Hy" Hintermeister Calendar illustration: Boy and dog crab-fishing.
Lot 13 Russell Sambrook Illustration: Kids surprised by police officer in swimming hole.
Lot 14 John W. Scott Probably magazine cover: Fishermen with marlin breaking water.
Lot 15 Hardie Gramatky Illustration: Flyfishermen.
Lot 16 Robert Berran Magazine cover: Life guard holding lost boy on his shoulder.
Lot 17 Henry A. "Hy" Hintermeister Calendar illustration: Boy practicing trombone to annoyance of fisherman and dog.
Lot 18 Amos Sewell Magazine cover: Mother relaxes as kids go back to school.
Lot 19 Andrew Loomis Advertisement: Mother and baby at breakfast.
Lot 20 Ruth M. Hallock Advertisement: Children saying grace in anticipation of breakfast.
Lot 21 Haddon Sundblom Story illustration: Defiant little girl and onlookers.
Lot 22 Ralph Pallen Coleman Magazine cover: Woman sewing curtains as husband attempts to hang them.
Lot 23 John LaGatta Magazine cover: Cloak room attendant pauses to smell corsage.
Lot 24 John LaGatta Likely advertisement: Fashionable couple relaxing while playing checkers.
Lot 25 John Gannam Story illustration: Passionate couple in moonlit yard.
Lot 26 Ben Stahl Illustration: Woman at dressing table.
Lot 27 George H. Wright Painting: Meeting the morning post.
Lot 28 Howard Pyle Poem illustration: Pan playing flute as Isis looks on.
Lot 29º Howard Pyle Music illustration: Old man and young woman meeting on forest path.
Lot 30 Howard Pyle Story illustration: Demure woman seated in front of house as suitor approaches.
Lot 31 Howard Pyle Book illustration: Crowd watching military engagment from church tower.
Lot 32 Howard Pyle Story illustration: Men watching woman play the piano.
Lot 33º Jessie Willcox Smith Illustration: Young girl practicing the piano.
Lot 34 Edwin Austin Abbey Program cover design: Woman holding lute by columns and tapestry.
Lot 35 Will Ladd Taylor Illustration: Woman walking in colonial town.
Lot 36 Alice Barber Stephens Story illustration: Women relaxing in the park.
Lot 37º Stanley M. Arthurs Painting: Woman at gate about to raise parasol.
Lot 38 Louis Loeb Illustration: Scene at a turn-of-the-century Christmas party.
Lot 39 William T. Smedley Travelogue illustration: Group of people admiring paintings.
Lot 40 Henry Hutt Illustration: Beautiful woman and Cupid at the piano.
Lot 41 Howard Chandler Christy Book illustration: Seated woman.
Lot 42 Harrison Fisher Illustration: Young woman wearing blue gown.
Lot 43 Albert Beck Wenzell Illustration: Military men saluting officers and woman in passing coach.
Lot 44º Dean Cornwell Story illustration: Couple under loggia.
Lot 45 Stanley M. Arthurs Story illustration: Man shovelling coal in train.
Lot 46 James Montgomery Flagg Story illustration: Threesome on shipdeck.
Lot 47 Mead Schaeffer Book illustration: Tommo and Toby meeting on shipdeck at night.
Lot 48 Mead Schaeffer Story illustration: Elegant young woman turning away from older woman.
Lot 49º Harvey Dunn Possibly magazine cover: Spanish galleon in high seas.
Lot 50 Alexander Leydenfrost Advertisement: Air Transport Command reviewing burning refinery.
Lot 51 Pruett Carter Illustration: Soldier standing in battlefield, farming scene behind.
Lot 52 Dean Cornwell Illustration: Dove of peace alighting.
Lot 53 Charles Livingston Bull Magazine cover: Two bear cubs in tree.
Lot 54 Charles Livingston Bull Probably book illustration: Raccoon pestered by flock of blue jays.
Lot 55 Johannes Adam Oertel Illustration: Indian brave rejoicing over slain bear.
Lot 56 Benton Clark Illustration: Wagon train making its way through mountains.
Lot 57 Frederic C. Yohn Story illustration: Man apprehended on western street.
Lot 58 James E. Allen Story illustration: Two men conversing under tree.
Lot 59 Arthur E. Becher Illustration: Pioneers crossing the continental divide.
Lot 60 Arthur Mitchell Illustration: Seated cowboys and resting horses.
Lot 61 Arthur Mitchell Illustration: Two cowboys on horseback looking towards horizon.
Lot 62 R. Farrington Elwell Illustration: Indians robbing stage.
Lot 63 Dan Cody Müller Illustration: Armed cowboys riding through town.
Lot 64 Frank McCarthy Magazine cover: Two men stalking, and stalked by, a mountain lion.
Lot 65 Frank McCarthy Paperback book cover: Standing gunslinger.
Lot 66 Norman M. Price Story illustration: Scene in a rough and tumble Mexican cantina.
Lot 67 Sidney Riesenberg Pulp magazine cover: Cowboy tying pack onto burro.
Lot 68 Amos Sewell Story illustration: Farmyard scene, boy holding money aloft.
Lot 69 Amos Sewell Story illustration: Two skiiers pausing.
Lot 70 Baryé Phillips Paperback book cover: Couple in desolate landscape.
Lot 71º George Gross Paperback book cover: Man raising sunglasses to admire beauty in polka-dotted bikini.
Lot 72 Robert McGinnis Illustration: Nude lounging on day bed, animal prints.
Lot 73 Robert McGinnis Paperback book cover: Standing woman in black sequined gown, boa and diamonds.
Lot 74 Earl Moran Calendar illustration: Seated nude in dramatic lighting.
Lot 75 Rolf Armstrong Painting: Lounging nude with cigarette.
Lot 76 Alberto Vargas Illustration: Beautiful woman wearing riding outfit.
Lot 77 Alberto Vargas Calendar illustration: Seated women in white with bouquet of flowers.
Lot 78 George Petty Movie poster design: Standing woman in diaphonous purple outfit speaking on phone.
Lot 79 George Petty Illustration: Elegant couple dancing, woman in pink looking on.
Lot 80 Billy DeVorss Calendar illustration: Saluting patriotic woman dressed in blue.
Lot 81 Victor Tchetchet Likely calendar illustration: Woman in patriotic swimsuit at fireworks display.
Lot 82 McClelland Barclay Portrait: Beautiful woman with maracas in Hawaii.
Lot 83 Billy DeVorss Illustration: Smiling woman wearing fur.
Lot 84 No Lot
Lot 85 Jules Erbit Probably calendar illustration: Smiling woman wearing white fur stole over gold sleeveless dress.
Lot 86 James Montgomery Flagg Illustration: Young flapper with hanging lantern behind her.
Lot 87 Neysa McMein Magazine cover: Young woman with diploma and bouquet of roses.
Lot 88 Ellen B. Thompson Pyle Magazine cover: Young woman gardener pausing in wheelbarrow.
Lot 89 Charles D. Mitchell Story illustration: Two women in interior, one seated.
Lot 90º Dan Sayre Groesbeck Illustration, possibly magazine cover: Medieval woman in yellow among candles.
Lot 91 Sarah S. Stilwell-Weber Magazine cover: Girl watching canary.
Lot 92 Hannes Bok Illustration: Woman with green cape in stylized landscape.
Lot 93 E. Boyd Smith Book illustration: The marriage of captain John Smith and Pocahontas.
Lot 94 E. Percy Moran Book illustration: Young girl in wintry landscape.
Lot 95 Maud Humphrey [Bogart] Illustration: Young girl braiding another's hair.
Lot 96 Everett Shinn Book illustration: Tiny Tim sitting by fireplace.
Lot 97 B. Cory Kilvert Six book illustrations: Two boys daily adventures from Monday through Saturday.
Lot 98 James Marshall Drawing: Animals enjoying a Mediterranean cruise.
Lot 99 Maurice Sendak Poster illustration: Two children and Wild Thing with book.
Lot 100 Maurice Sendak Book illustration: Jumblies in sieve at sea.
Lot 101 Garth Williams Book illustration: Stuart Little sleeping by the riverbank.
Lot 102 Arthur Rackham Two book illustrations: Headless horseman riding through grove of trees WITH Image of skeleton entwined in shadow of tree.
Lot 103 Barry Moser Two book illos and preliminary version: Jumping rabbit with cigar.
Lot 104 Ludwig Bemelmans Book illustration: Miss Clavel and eleven little girls surprised by unoccupied bed.
Lot 105 Sarah Noble Ives Three book illustrations: Three men adrift on ocean WITH Two other subjects.
Lot 106 Errol Le Cain Book illustration: Little boy looking out window at night.
Lot 107 Richard Doyle Painting: Fairies combing goats' beards.
Lot 108 Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Book illustration: Young birds joining fairy in song.
Lot 109 Honor C. Appleton Probably book illustration: Baby on hill surrounded by dancing fairies.
Lot 110 Harold Gaze Illustration: Woodland fairy seated at edge of brook.
Lot 111 Harold Gaze Illustration: Fairies seated in flowering plant, visited by bees.
Lot 112 Jessie King Book illustration: Pied Piper and dancing children.
Lot 113 Gustaf Tenggren Illustration: Children gather to listen to piper.
Lot 114 Maud & Miska Petersham Two book illustrations: Popcorn man and the Potato-faced Blind Man.
Lot 115º Willy Pogany Book illustration: Crowded European marketplace.
Lot 116 Beni Montresor Book illustration: Prince with lavish foods.
Lot 117 Edward Leigh Chase Illustration: Elves busy in workshop.
Lot 118 Palmer Cox Book illustration: Brownies hiding in hollow tree and behind boulder.
Lot 119 Rose O'Neill Story illustration: Kewpies arrive to cheer up crying boy.
Lot 120 Ludwig Bemelmans Book illustration: Rabbit and elephant on tropical island, whale swimming by.
Lot 121 Lawson Wood Illustration: Chick and shell ejected from downspout.
Lot 122 Thomas S. Sullivant Book illustration: Frog startled by errant golf shot.
Lot 123 Palmer Cox Poem illustration: Crocodile dances to fiddler's polka.
Lot 124 George Herriman Handcolored sunday comic strip: Ignatz attempts to turn in partying cats.
Lot 125 Walt Kelly Sequential drawing: Pogo's watch needs fixing- more than ever.
Lot 126 Disney Studios Advertisement: One of the Seven Dwarves carrying motor oil.
Lot 127 Charles M. Schulz Daily comic strip: Charlie Brown and Lucy discuss Snoopy's plight.
Lot 128 Charles M. Schulz Daily comic strip: Lucy reads to Charlie Brown from her ABC book.
Lot 129 Otto Soglow Sunday comic strip and topper: Novel way to silence howling cat AND A parade is disrupted by rain.
Lot 130 Thomas Nast Political cartoon: Justice confronting Death outside of court.
Lot 131 Art Young Political cartoon: Capitalism and Socialism meet on the street.
Lot 132 Charles Addams Unpublished version of magazine cover: Bulls and Bears chatting on Wall St..
Lot 133 Charles Addams Gag cartoon: Three criminals outside of bank at night.
Lot 134 George Price Gag cartoon: Wife comments as husband goes out.
Lot 135 Heinrich Kley Illustration: Nude people avoiding rainstorm in a skull.
Lot 136 James Montgomery Flagg Book cover: Satyr serenading nymphs.
Lot 137 Whitney Darrow, Jr. Nineteen book illustrations: .
Lot 138º John Held, Jr. Magazine cover: Crowd of a variety of people turned away from viewer.
Lot 139 Harry Beckhoff Story illustration: Children's choir singing as proud parents look on.
Lot 140 Peter Arno Gag cartoon: Couple on gangway of Hawaiin cruise ship.
Lot 141 Richard Taylor Gag cartoon: Castaways on island with heavyset, fully clothed women.
Lot 142 Bruce Stark Magazine cover: The cast of "The Love Boat".
Lot 143 Ralph Barton Illustration: Charlie Chaplin smiling in theatre.
Lot 144 William Cotton Caricature: H.G. Wells dreams of a flaming Earth.
Lot 145 Jaro Fabry Version of magazine cover: Lucille Ball in a heart-shaped surround.
Lot 146 Robert E. Schulz Magazine cover: Men with guns framed by broken glass.
Lot 147 Vladimir Bobritsky "Bobri" Magazine cover: Caricature of Fred Astaire.
Lot 148 Helen Dryden Apparently unpublished magazine cover: Stylish woman pausing in landscape.
Lot 149 Alureda Leach (Baumhofer) Magazine cover: Two women on an autumn day, one wearing plaid.
Lot 150 Glory Merritt Magazine cover: Woman unwrapping present.
Lot 151 Jaro Fabry Story illustration: Three people gathered around piano.
Lot 152 Vladimir Bobritsky "Bobri" Magazine cover: Santa delivering golf clubs along with other presents.
Lot 153 Robert Berran Movie poster design: Pitcher warming up, radio announcer and other scenes.
Lot 154 Charles DeFeo Magazine cover: Live broadcast of a baseball game.
Lot 155 Verne Tossey Possible magazine cover: Building a skyscraper.
Lot 156 Ettore Caser Painting: The East side as seen from Central Park, New York.
Lot 157 Louis Floutier Magazine cover: Patio with large vase.
Lot 158 Anthony Nellé Stage design: Dancers nannies with pram in Central Park's lilac garden.
Lot 159 David Stone Martin Record album cover: New Orleans street scene with music store.
Lot 160 Al Parker Story illustration: Scenes from the life of a teenaged girl.
Lot 161 Bob Peak Unpublished magazine cover: Portrait of Frank Sinatra.
Lot 162 Al Parker Story illustration: Man at party grabbed by woman with drink.
Lot 163 Coby Whitmore Story illustration: Man in grey suit greeted by wife.
Lot 164 Austin Briggs Advertisement: Family arrives in their new Chevrolet.
Lot 165 Bob Peak Advertisement: Speeding cars.
Lot 166 Richard Arbib Design concept painting: Elegant woman standing next to blue Stratocoupe.
Lot 167 Richard Arbib Design concept painting: Streamlined four door sedan at night.
Lot 168 Frederick Blakeslee Illustration: Freight train at grain silo on the plains.
Lot 169 Robert A. Graef Pulp magazine cover: Jungle man holding machete with chimpanzee.
Lot 170 Paul Stahr Pulp magazine cover: Two seamen on sailing ship, one pointing to horizon.
Lot 171 Rudolph Belarski Pulp magazine cover: Man with pistol abducting blonde woman.
Lot 172 William Reusswig Pulp magazine cover: Woman on sideboard pulls gun on fleeing gangster.