Dotsy and Eddie's Copy of Cat-Calls by Peggy Bacon

A rare copy of Cat-Calls (1935) by Peggy Bacon (1895-1987) seems just the thing to contemplate during the flu season. The book bears a full-page original drawing of a child's sickbed complete with inscription and signature. There is even a playful cat beneath the bed among the slippers. Illustrator Tom Bloom, who has provided us with scans, reports also a tiny ink test squiggle on the front flap which is not shown here. The publication date of 1935 dates this drawing perhaps to the New Year of 1936 or later. 

Peggy Bacon
Cat-Calls (1935)

Scan by Tom Bloom

Peggy Bacon
Inscribed "Happy New Year with Cold—
(Specially for Dotsy & Eddie—Peggy Bacon—)"
 In Cat-Calls (1935)

Scan by Tom Bloom

Note:  My thanks to Tom Bloom for contributing these wonderful scans. This is Tom's eighth contribution to Attempted Bloggery. Go ahead, check my math.

Peggy Bacon was a New Yorker cartoonist and poet as well as a major book illustrator. This is the first original book drawing of hers I've seen. I hope it will not be the last. Readers with original works by Peggy Bacon in their collections are encouraged to forward images to this blog to promote greater appreciation of her achievement.

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