LOT 4052
2nd April 2025
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LOT 4052
WAIN, Louis (illustrator) and Claire WAIN. Louis Wain’s Great Big Midget Book. London: Dean & Son, Ltd., [1934.] First edition, 16mo (116 x 99mm.) Numerous black and white illustrations by Louis Wain. (Toning.) Original pictorial boards (lightly bumped). Note: scarce. The last book that Louis Wain published in his lifetime. Louis and his sister, Claire, worked on it while he was a patient at Napsbury psychiatric hospital in Hertfordshire where he spent the last fifteen years of his life. – And a further thirteen small-format books, mainly by Kate Greenaway (including ‘Almanach de Kate Greenaway 1890’, [1889], 16mo, and Maurice Sendak’s ‘The Nutshell Library’, 4 vols., 1964, 16mo) (10).
Estimate: £50 – £70
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