SEUSS - AND FINE LITERATURE SALE 419 JANUARY 7, 2010 REAL-TIME BIDDINGAVAILABLE PBA Galleries features Real-Time Bidding for its live auctions. This feature allows Internet Users to bid on items instantaneously, as though they were in the room with the auctioneer. If it is an auction day, you may view the Real-Time Bidder at http://www.pbagalleries.com/realtimebidder/ . Instructions for its use can be found by following the link at the top of the Real-Time Bidder page. Please note: you will need to be logged in and have a credit card registered with PBA Galleries to access the Real-Time Bidder area. In addition, we continue to provide provisions for Absentee Bidding by email, fax, regular mail, and telephone prior to the auction, as well as live phone bidding during the auction. Please contact PBA Galleries for more information. IMAGES AT WWW.PBAGALLERIES.COM All the items in this catalogue are pictured in the online version of the catalogue at www.pbagalleries. com. 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Sale 419 Thursday, January 7, 2010 1:00 PM Dr. Seuss & and Fine Literature Auction Preview Tuesday, January 5 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Wednesday, January 6 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Thursday, January 7 - 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Or by appointment 133 Kearny Street 4th Floor:San Francisco, CA 94108 phone: 415.989.2665 toll free: 1.866.999.7224 fax: 415.989.1664 [email protected]:www.pbagalleries.com Administration Roger Wagner, Chairman Scott Evans, President Shannon Kennedy, Vice President, Client Services Dan Sweetnam, Shipping Clerk Consignments, Appraisals & Cataloguing Bruce E. MacMakin, Senior Vice President George K. Fox, Vice President, Market Development & Senior Auctioneer Gregory Jung, Senior Specialist Erin Garland, Specialist Marketing Maureen Gross, Vice President of Marketing Photography & Design Chad Mueller, Photographer Winter Auctions, 2010 January 7, 2010 – Dr. Seuss & Fine Literature January 21, 2010 – Americana - Cartography - TCowboy Toys and Collectibles February 8, 2010 – Fine & Rare Books and Manuscripts February 18, 2010 – Fine Golf Books & Memorabilia Schedule is subject to change. Please contact PBA or pbagalleries.com for further information. Consignments are being accepted for the 2009 Auction season. Please contact Bruce MacMakin at [email protected]. Front Cover: Lot 21 Back Cover: Clockwise from upper left Lots 1, 152, 88, 33 Bond # 14425383 Section I: Seuss, Lots 1-85 Section II: Fine Literature, Lots 86-172 Section I: Seuss A SEUSS ORIGINAL DRAWING – “PUBLIC RELATIONS DUCK” 1. SEUSS, DR. Original ink drawing, hand-colored and signed by Dr. Seuss. Original ink drawing by Dr. Seuss, colored with color pencil. 11x8½. Image of a duck strolling atop a small patch of grass, playing music from his nose/beak. No date Large original drawing by Dr. Seuss, inscribed and signed. The message from Dr. Seuss is inscribed in green color pencil/crayon that reads, “A Public- Relations Duck for Leonard Shannon. Dr. Seuss.” The image is vibrantly colored, and the duck has been colored in neon pink, yellow, orange, blue and green. Some faint pencilling is still evident from the original pencil sketch. Paper edges lightly yellowed with age, one tiny closed tear at top edge, a few very small spots where paper is thinner, one pin hole; very good. (5000/8000) 2. SEUSS, DR. Original watercolor drawing. Original ink and watercolor drawing, on card stock. 6¼x3½, comes in a later picture frame, however it is unmounted. No place: No date Inscribed by Dr. Seuss at the top “For Fred Stanley from Hejji [bold]” and at the bottom “Dr. Seuss.” Vibrantly colored illustration of a man riding an animal, reminiscent of the Mulligatawny from the Desert of Zind from the book “If I Ran the Zoo.” Hand-colored, with some evidence of the pencil sketch work that preceded the inking and water coloring. Was once mounted, and remains of glue on verso; else fine. (3000/5000) Lot 1 Lot 2 Page 1 3. (Seuss, Dr.) JONES, CHUCK. Three animation cels from the Horton Hears a Who television special. Three animation cells, each in various stages of the process, including: Original production drawing on paper. Image in pencil of Horton, half submerged in water. Signed Chuck Jones and dated 1970 in pencil. 10½x12½. * Hand-painted illustration on acetate in black, gray and blue of Horton frolicking, laid over a color background. Signed in ink by Chuck Jones. 10½x14. The previous two have a seal of authentication sticker placed directly on image, and a code written on bottom of image. Both from Linda Jones Enterprises, with a certificate of authenticity included. * Hand-painted illustration in black, purple and pink of Horton. It is the largest image of Horton of the three, measuring 7x7 on a 10x12½ piece of acetate. Code “E29” written on bottom corner. No other identifying marks. Turner Entertainment: 1970 From the 1970 animated television special, adapted from the book and directed by Chuck Jones. Two of the animated cels are signed by Chuck Jones. Representing the three stages of the animation process for each movement of Horton: The original drawing, the transfer of the drawing onto acetate with hand-painting, and the addition of a background. The third illustration has some creasing to edges of acetate; else fine. (2000/3000) Lot 3 4. (Seuss, Dr.) ROSS, VIRGIL. Two original drawings of the Grinch in color. Two original color pencil drawings on paper. The first is an image of the Grinch with his distinctive thoughtful grimace and colored in green; the second image is of the Grinch and Max and is colored in red, green, brown, gray, and yellow. Both are signed by Virgil Ross in his distinctive signature. They are professionally matted and framed together. Each image measures approximately 9x11½, together with frame measures 17½x33½. Turner Entertainment, [c.1980] Virgil Ross (d.1996) is best known for his Looney Toons animation, however he did work on the 1982 television special “The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat,” and likely these are concept drawings for that production. They come with two certificates of authenticity from American Royal Arts Company identifying their source as Turner Entertainment Co. The frame’s extremities are chipped in a few places; drawings not examined outside of frame, however they appear fine. Additional shipping charges may apply. (1000/1500) Page 2 A CAT IN THE HAT - JACK-IN-THE-BOX 5. SEUSS, DR. The Cat in the Hat In-The-Music-Box. Tin jack-in-the-box produced by Mattel. Closed, it measures 5½x5x5 and open it is 12” high including the Cat in the Hat figurine. The figurine is made of hollow plastic for the head, painted in yellow black and red, with a stitched cloth body, and paper hands. Mattel, 1970 Four sides of the cube features a color illustration of the Cat in the Hat’s adventures. The lid must be manually lifted, as the crank does not function. Many rubbed areas, or scratches on surface, a few very minute dents in tin, the paint on the figurine’s head is rubbed or chipped in places with some scratching; figurine still stands upright on its own; good. (200/300) 6. SEUSS, DR. Gerald McBoing-Boing and The 500 Hats - four records in their illustrated record sleeves. From Capital Records: Gerald McBoing-Boing told by The Great Gildersleeve. One 45 RPM record in its color illustrated sleeve by Dr. Seuss. 7x7. Has been used, cannot verify if it works. Dusty, with some marks to vinyl. Labelled Album CASF-3054. 1950. * Gerald McBoing-Boing told by The Great Gildersleeve. One 78 RPM record in its color illustrated sleeve. 10x10. Has been used, cannot verify if it works.