Spring Premier Auction
Saturday, May 21, 2005 1:00 pm




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Lots in the Spring 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 1Bradshaw CrandellMagazine cover: Beautiful woman wearing large hat.
2 No Lott
Lot 3Francis X. LeyendeckerMagazine cover: Woman with hat boxes.
Lot 4Jessie GillespieMagazine cover: Young woman with daffodils.
Lot 5Alureda Leach (Baumhofer)Magazine cover: Woman with jewels assessing herself in mirror.
Lot 6Leslie SaalburgTwo advertisements: Men by roadster, map WITH Horserace spectators with binoculars.
Lot 7Morton RobertsIllustration: Horse and jockey entering the winner's circle.
Lot 9Norman RockwellAdvertisement: Executive with cigar dictating to stenographer.
Lot 10Norman RockwellComp. sketch for advertisement: Hobo snoozing beneath sign.
Lot 11Joseph F. KernanAdvertisement: Man and dog relaxing in glow of fireplace.
Lot 12Artist UnidentifiedAdvertisement: Well-dressed couple relaxing with coffee.
Lot 13René ClarkeAdvertisment: Cake, salad, eggs.
Lot 14Stevan DohanosMagazine cover: Couple enjoying an after-theatre dessert, to varying degrees.
Lot 15Constantin AlajálovMagazine cover: Man arrives with Christmas tree to discover wife has already bought one.
Lot 16Robert FawcettStory illustration: Family decorating Christmas tree.
Lot 17Stan EkmanMagazine cover: Boy with violin case pauses to consider western movie poster.
Lot 18Roswell KellerMagazine cover: Church organist before a round of golf.
Lot 19Harold AndersonAdvertisement: Children heading off to school.
Lot 20Morgan KaneMagazine cover: Young woman sewing patch onto skirt of scarecrowess.
Lot 21Al ParkerStory illustration: Boy with varsity football letter for his sweater.
Lot 22Euclid ShookMagazine cover: Taking a class picture.
Lot 23Howard V. BrownIllustration: Couple at telegraphy set.
Lot 24Harry Grant DartIllustration: Woman fishing from boulder above calm stream.
Lot 25Charles A. HughesIllustration: Izaak Walton suffers a mishap at the fishing hole.
Lot 26Pruett CarterStory illustration: Group of teenagers at a party.
Lot 27McClelland BarclayStory illustration: Dance party.
Lot 28Henry RaleighStory illustration: Young woman watching couple at entrance to building.
Lot 29Charles D. MitchellStory illustration: Couple conversing backstage.
Lot 30Arthur William BrownStory illustration: Man and two women, one with stenographer's pad.
Lot 31John LaGattaIllustration: Women relaxing outside powder room.
Lot 32James Montgomery FlaggPainting: Woman relaxing in the garden.
Lot 33Mortimer Wilson, Jr.Story illustration: Air Force test pilot, watching sleeping woman.
Lot 34Walter M. BaumhoferStory illustration: Woman pointing machine gun at soldiers.
Lot 35Walter M. BaumhoferStory illustration: Couple in passionate embrace on beach.
Lot 36Dean CornwellStory illustration: Cuban gangsters held by police at waterfront.
Lot 37Robert McGinnisPaperback book cover: Standing redhead with pistol.
Lot 38Saul TepperIllustration: Poker game.
Lot 39Robert FawcettStory illustration: Bodies discovered in the drawing room.
Lot 40Charles Dana GibsonBook illustration: Woman at formal gathering, receiving lines.
Lot 41Orson LowellIllustration: Backstage crowd.
Lot 42Fortunino MataniaSuite of nine illustrations: Queen Henrietta Maria arriving by barge WITH Eight other subjects.
Lot 43Henry C. PitzStory illustration: Men arguing in crowded hall.
Lot 44Norman RockwellComp. sketch for illustration: Abraham Lincoln posing for a portrait by photographer Matthew Brady.
Lot 45Joseph C. LeyendeckerAdvertisement: General Douglas MacArthur.
Lot 46Anton Otto FischerDustjacket illustration: Sailors in launch approaching battleship.
Lot 47Harold von SchmidtStory illustration: Airplane between battling submarines.
Lot 48Sidney H. RiesenbergPulp magazine cover: Bombing a zeppelin hangar with grenades.
Lot 49Rafael DeSotoPulp magazine cover: Woman about to be chained to wall by skeleton in dungeon.
Lot 50George Lee TrimmProbably unpublished pulp magazine cover: Hooded henchman making wax statues of women.
Lot 51Arthur SzykIllustration: Standing Benito Mussolini.
Lot 52Gustav TenggrenIllustration: Woman ravaged by drunken monks.
Lot 53Mahlon BlaineIllustration: Horned woman dancing in Hell.
Lot 54Mort KünstlerStory illustration: Man with sword interupting Japanese Army officer and concubine.
Lot 55Norman SaundersPulp magazine cover: Woman returns fire while hero and attacker struggle..
Lot 56George GrossPulp magazine cover: Couple and horse in blizzard, he firing at unseen attacker.
Lot 57Frank McCarthy (attrib.)Three advertisements: Firing at pursuing Indians WITH Two other subjects.
Lot 58John LeonePaperback book cover: Men on horseback crossing stream, guns drawn.
Lot 59Frederic C. YohnBook illustration: Man scolding woman across stream.
Lot 60H. C. MurphyPulp magazine cover: Cowpoke loading gun as duplicate Ace of Diamonds is revealed.
Lot 61H. Winfield ScottPulp magazine cover: Two hombres backing towards door with guns at the ready.
Lot 62H.C. MurphyPulp magazine cover: Sailor on rigging as sharks circle below.
Lot 63Harvey DunnStory illustration: Lost in the desert, vultures gathering.
Lot 64Tom LovellStory illustration: Couple discovers body on floor, she with gun.
Lot 65Walt LouderbackStory illustration: Couple in moonlit graveyard.
Lot 66Herbert Morton StoopsStory illustration: Couple at hearth, he packing hastily.
Lot 67Dan ContentStory illustration: Confrontation outside a thatched roof house.
Lot 68Norman M. PriceStory illustration: Crowd assembles as drummer boy is assaulted at night.
Lot 69Amos SewellStory illustration: Man and young boy lost in the bayou.
Lot 70Amos SewellStory illustration: Boy in waiting room gets a lecture from a tough guy.
Lot 71Frank GodwinPainting: Immigrant family, likely at Ellis Island.
Lot 72Harley deWitt NicholsIllustration: Man meets snarling bear on treacherous mountain path.
Lot 73Felix O.C. DarleyIllustration: Hunters in camp.
Lot 74Thomas MoranEditorial illustration: Valley with trees and glacier.
Lot 75George GigučreTwo story illustrations: Planning a snowy ambush WITH Four men holding rifles aloft in snowy landscape.
Lot 76Mead SchaefferStory illustration: Driving a dogsled.
Lot 77Charles R. KnightIllustration: Prehistoric wolves attacking bison.
Lot 78Will JamesBook illustration: Horse kicking wolf.
Lot 79Charles Livingston BullStory illustration: Bald eagle and swan.
Lot 80Charles Livingston BullIllustration: Water lilies, large fish.
Lot 82Edward DetmoldBook illustration: Chicks.
Lot 83Edmund DulacIllustration: Elephant and showman.
Lot 84Leonard WeisgardTwenty-five book illustrations: Suite of illustrations.
Lot 85Robert A. GraefIllustration: Teacher lion showing chart of man to disinterested beasts.
Lot 86Thomas S. SullivantGag cartoon: Pig and rooster in farmyard.
Lot 87Heinrich KleyDrawing: Dancing penguins.
Lot 88Grace DraytonFour book illustrations: Little bears in assorted adventures.
Lot 90George HerrimanHandcolored daily comic strip: Krazy puts on airs, only to get a brique in the head.
Lot 91George HerrimanSunday comic strip: Swopp Horn the trade rat and Ignatz make a trade.
Lot 92Charles M. SchulzDaily comic strip: Snoopy and Woodstock on the golf course.
Lot 93Charles M. SchulzDaily comic strip: Linus discusses Charlie Brown's employment prospects.
Lot 94Charles M. SchulzDaily comic strip: Charlie Brown describes Frieda to his pencil pal.
Lot 95Winsor McCaySunday comic strip: Nemo and friends ride a toboggan to meet Jack Frost.
Lot 96Franklin BoothBook illustration: Mounted knight and child approaching castle.
Lot 97Jean L. HuensPaperback book cover: Boy and monkey on tropical island, treehouse in background.
Lot 98Jessie Willcox SmithBook illustration: Girl making dolls' clothing.
Lot 99Maurice SendakBook illustration: Jumblies leaving the dock.
Lot 100Arnold LobelBook illustration: Figures meeting on bridge.
Lot 101Ludwig BemelmansStory illustration: Madeline rushes to open front door of house.
Lot 102Grace DraytonTwo advertisements: Campbell's Soup kids as aviator AND Playing hopscotch.
Lot 103Kate GreenawayBook illustration: Baby with cake, toddler sitting with young girl.
Lot 104Artist UnidentifiedPop-up book cover: Mother Goose flying above a variety of her characters.
Lot 105Lucile Patterson MarshMagazine cover: Blonde baby peering out of crib.
Lot 106Howard ScottAdvertisement: Boy in straw hat and overalls flicking pea into his mouth.
Lot 107Edna EickeMagazine cover: Little girls with roadside flower stand.
Lot 108Anatole KovarskyMagazine cover: Indians on observation deck of the Empire State Building.
Lot 109Helen HokinsonMagazine cover: Matron presenting butcher with bouquet of flowers.
Lot 110Witold GordonMagazine cover: New York City storefront, vendors specializing in gowns.
Lot 111Lee LorenzMagazine cover: Uncle Sam extracting last dime from horn of plenty.
Lot 112Arthur PalmerDrawing: Artist and model.
Lot 113James ThurberGag cartoon: Woman reviewing husband's attire in habadasherry.
Lot 114James ThurberGag cartoon: Three women listening to another.
Lot 115Peter ArnoGag cartoon: Men passing on way to and from New Year's Eve party.
Lot 116Peter ArnoGag cartoon: Bride surprised as husband emerges from bathroom.
Lot 117William SteigGag cartoon: Seated woman speaking on telephone.
Lot 118George PriceGag cartoon: Two men questioning sideshow freak.
Lot 119Otto SoglowEleven spot illustrations: Knitting woman amidst dolls and toys WITH Ten other subjects.
Lot 120Armand WestonMovie poster design: Pair of rich con artists on the telephone.
Lot 121David LevineCaricature: Che Guevara as Pied Piper.
Lot 123Al HirschfeldMovie publicity design: Two children with sword confront a pirate, genie appearing.
Lot 124James Montgomery FlaggStory illustration: Bored woman on subway.
Lot 125Russel CrofootDustjacket illustration: Woman seated on dinghy at beach.
Lot 126Jack ColeGag cartoon: Shapely woman at the beach, man clowning behind her.
Lot 127Edwin GeorgiStory illustration: Seated woman in green negligeé, man looking on.
Lot 128Sol KorbyPaperback book cover: Man embracing woman from behind.
Lot 129Alberto VargasIllustration: Shapely blonde hiking up her stockings.
Lot 130Alberto VargasPainting: Lounging nude with medal and bouquet of flowers.
Lot 131Bobby ToombsPainting: Nude lounging in bed.
Lot 132Dean CornwellStory illustration: Ball scene with dancers.
Lot 133Max KlepperIllustration: Couple on horseback watching passing riders.
Lot 134Willy PoganyMagazine cover: Woman in red standing amid orchard blossoms.
Lot 135George Randolph Barse Jr., N.A.Painting: Primping zephyr.
Lot 136Eleanor Fortescue BrickdaleIllustration: Angel holding hand of bound figure.
Lot 137Clara Elsene PeckStory illustration: Woman and children at loom.
Lot 138Percy MoranIllustration: Standing young woman with basket of flowers.
Lot 139Archie GunnIllustration: Beautiful woman collecting fresh flowers.
Lot 140Felix O.C. DarleyBook illustration: Hester Prynne and daughter at water's edge.
Lot 141Richard DoyleIllustration: Rumplestiltskin and Princess.
Lot 142René BullIllustration: Seated young woman and harlequin.
Lot 144Arthur RackhamTailpiece: Spiderweb in crook of branch.
Lot 145Jules GuérinTwo paintings: Market scene WITH Figures at massive gate.
Lot 146Bob PeakIllustration: Pole vaulter clearing bar.
Lot 147Bernie FuchsStory illustration: Lone Japanese baseball player in outfield.
Lot 148Bob PeakStory illustration: Race car and Indianapolis 500 track.
Lot 149Arthur Fitzpatrick& Van KaufmanAdvertisement: Speeding Pontiac Catalina.
Lot 150Bernie FuchsAdvertisement: Sailing ship under a purple moon, image of loomworker on sail.
Lot 151Stanley MeltzoffAdvertisement: Greek artisan crafting amoured helmet.
Lot 152Paul LehrAdvertisement: Sixteenth century Italian sculptor Benvenuto Cellini in his studio.
Lot 153Verne TosseyAdvertisement: Explorers entering Egytian tomb.
Lot 154Robert LavinStock certificate design: Striding woman surrounded by orbiting electrons.
Lot 155Robert McCallIllustration: Flying robot.
Lot 156Frank R. PaulStory illustration: Harvesting a planet's resources.
Lot 157Peter StevensMagazine cover: Woman astronaut firing at approaching monster, downed astronaut.
Lot 158Robert C. SherryPulp magazine cover: Battling destructive robots.