A LARGE scale oil by Kathleen Hale of Orlando Reclining Amongst Flowers failed to sell against a £10,000-15,000 estimate at Sotheby’s on July 8, but the autograph draft manuscript of Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) becomes a Doctor of 1944, right, each page with pencil and coloured crayon drawings (some with added wash or gouache, a few unfinished) did sell at £5000 to a London gallery.
Showing all points consistent with a first issue - principally the fact that there is no mention whatsoever of the Caldecott Medal Award - the 1963 first printing of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, seen bottom right, was sold for £3900 (Hawthorn) in a
Dominic Winter sale of June 24.
