Oz: The Hundredth Anniversary Celebration Deluxe Edition

The deluxe limited edition of Oz: The Hundredth Anniversary Celebration is signed by an impressive array of thirty leading children's book authors and illustrators including cover artist Maurice Sendak. Originally selling for about $100, this handsome, slipcased edition is priced considerably higher today—that is, if you can find a copy at all.

Cover art by Maurice Sendak

Oz:  The Hundredth Anniversary Celebration
Classic Editions listing accessed August 25, 2021

https://www.classiceditions.com/oz-the-100-year-celebration-signed-by-30-including-maurice-sendak-88-of-100/

Note:  Thanks to illustrator and children's book fancier Stephen Kroninger for bringing me up to speed on this deluxe edition and steering me clear of the flying monkeys.

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A Crewel Trick

From Illustration House's December 10 sale comes the original book cover art for The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers. The artists are Leo and Diane Dillon and the medium is crewel. But is that all? Or is there some kind of overpainting here? The detail is just superb.

Lot 36	Leo & Diane Dillon						b.1933		x
x		Family members in contemplation amid wedding.								x
x		Book cover: Member of the Wedding, by Carson McCullers; Publisher: (Time-Life Books), 1965; Crewel, 28.5 x 32.5", signed lower left								x
x		Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000								x
x		Literature - The Art of Leo and Diane Dillon, ed. by Byron Preiss (Ballantine Books, 1981)								x
x		Condition - Very good overall: crop marks are indicated with bits of thread; framed in narrow grey wood frame.								x
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Lot 36

Leo & Diane Dillon

b.1933

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Family members in contemplation amid wedding.

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Book cover: Member of the Wedding, by Carson McCullers; Publisher: (Time-Life Books), 1965;
Crewel, 28.5 x 32.5", signed lower left

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Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000

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Literature - The Art of Leo and Diane Dillon, ed. by Byron Preiss (Ballantine Books, 1981)

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Condition - Very good overall: crop marks are indicated with bits of thread; framed in narrow grey wood frame.

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Note: The Dillons created a very different sort of image for their New York is Book Country poster. See it here.

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