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NEARLY COMPLETE SET OF HILARY KNIGHT BOOK ART FOR THE BEST LITTLE MONKEYS. Twenty-five finished double-page watercolors (including rejected frontispiece and title page) image 1
NEARLY COMPLETE SET OF HILARY KNIGHT BOOK ART FOR THE BEST LITTLE MONKEYS. Twenty-five finished double-page watercolors (including rejected frontispiece and title page) image 2
NEARLY COMPLETE SET OF HILARY KNIGHT BOOK ART FOR THE BEST LITTLE MONKEYS. Twenty-five finished double-page watercolors (including rejected frontispiece and title page) image 3
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NEARLY COMPLETE SET OF HILARY KNIGHT BOOK ART FOR THE BEST LITTLE MONKEYS.
Twenty-five finished double-page watercolors (including rejected frontispiece and title page)

5 December 2018, 10:00 EST
New York

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NEARLY COMPLETE SET OF HILARY KNIGHT BOOK ART FOR THE BEST LITTLE MONKEYS.

Twenty-five finished double-page watercolors (including rejected frontispiece and title page) for Natalie Standiford's The Best Little Monkeys in the World (New York: Random House, 1987), watercolor, ink and color pencil with text overlays, each 230 x 295 mm, creases and tears of overlays with some loss, pp 5-6 matted with text written in.
WITH: four preliminary ink and/or pencil drawings of characters and layout of the jungle house; assorted correspondence; set of folded and gathered color proofs; Xerox copy of manuscript; inventory of art; and a signed copy of the finished hardcover book with ink sketch of monkey: "Hilary Knight One of my favorite Books."

NEARLY COMPLETE SET OF ILLUSTRATIONS, LACKING ONLY COVER DESIGN. In this simian variant of The Cat in the Hat, two little monkeys Marvin and Mary get into all kinds of mischief because of an inattentive babysitter Judy. The preliminary work demonstrates how meticulously Mr. Knight prepared his picture books. Not only did he make detailed studies to get the characters just right, he made architectural renderings of the inside of the monkey house to trace how Marvin and Mary would move from one room to another. A fan of monkeys since his early years, Mr. Knight always welcomed the chance to draw them.

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