Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller

No place, ca. 1973. Set of 32 original illustrated story boards by Kathleen Hale, for her book Henrietta's Magic Egg, including the pictorial title-page and all 31 pages of the published book. Pen and ink, pencil, watercolor, and/or colored pencil or crayon on thick board; printed typescript mounted to each board, above or below images; tracing paper overlay, several with closed tears, toning, or detached; with autograph slip, by Hale: "These drawings are the originals for 'Henrietta's Magic Egg'..." Includes Hale's maquette booklet for the work, including illustrated front cover, mixed-media on paper (pencil, watercolor, crayon), with autograph pencil annotations, printing notes, corrections, etc.

Lot also includes two printer's proofs of the book, as well as two folders containing numerous preliminary and working drawings, notes, typescripts, and other ephemera for the same story, the large majority executed on tracing paper (approximately 122 total pieces). With a bound proof copy and typed notes of Henrietta, the Faithful Hen (1943), apparently used as a template or memory aid by the author for the above work, with a few penciled annotations by Hale within.