Lot 61 · Children's Books, Original Illustrations and Vintage Film Posters
"Make up your mind! Do you want The Kinks or Freddie and The Dreamers?"
Norman Thelwell · black chalk, pen and black ink and wash heightened with touches of white, unframed
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- Estimate
- £500–£700 hammer ≈ $814–$1,140
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Children's Books, Original Illustrations and Vintage Film Posters, London (South Kensington) · 10 December 2009
- Dimensions
- 19 x 27 cm
- Record ID
- TB-2026-5155850
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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Norman Thelwell, "Make up your mind! Do you want The Kinks or Freddie and The Dreamers?". Christie's, 10 Dec 2009, lot 61. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5155850.
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Norman Thelwell, "Make up your mind! Do you want The Kinks or Freddie and The Dreamers?". Christie's, 10 Dec 2009, lot 61. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5155850.
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From the same sale Children's Books, Original Illustrations and Vintage Film Posters · Dec 2009
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAUM, L. Frank (1856-1919). The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . Illustrated … | BAUM, L. Frank (1856-1919). The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . Illustrated by W.W. Denslow. Chicago and New York: Geo. M. Hill Co., 1900. 4° (212 x 161mm). Colour-printed title and 23 colour plates, illustrations throughout (occasional light wear in the margins, title with faint water stain along the foredge, one plate with a small marginal chip). Publisher's light green pictorial cloth, sides lettered and blocked in green and orange (spine lightly browned, small faint dampstains on the front cover, corners lightly rubbed). Provenance : 'M.K.B.' (in watercolours on the front free endpaper). | £800–£1,200 | |
| BINGHAM, Clifton (1859-1913) & George Henry THOMPSON (b.1861, illustr… | BINGHAM, Clifton (1859-1913) & George Henry THOMPSON (b.1861, illustrator). The Animals' Picnic . London: Ernest Nister, [early 20th century, no.754 on title]. Oblong 4° (251 x 309mm). 8 chromolithographed plates and numerous illustrations by Thompson, some full-page (2 leaves lightly browned, else a little marginal browning). Original pictorial boards (lightly rubbed). | £400–£600 | |
| The title page for Punch Almanack, 1935 | Ernest Howard Shepard | £800–£1,200 | |
| DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (1832-98) [i.e. "Lewis CARROLL"]. Alice's A… | DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (1832-98) [i.e. "Lewis CARROLL"]. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . London: Macmillan and Co., 1866. 8° (178 x 116mm). Half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel (some light spotting, occasional marginal light finger-soiling). Red morocco gilt by the Chelsea Bindery, green morocco lettering-pieces, double gilt rule on sides, small central illustration of Alice holding a pig on the front and a picture of a Cheshire cat on the rear cover, inner dentelles, gilt edges (new endpapers). | £1,000–£1,500 | |
| GIACOMELLI, Hector (illustrator) -- DE MUSSET, Alfred (1810-1857). Hi… | GIACOMELLI, Hector (illustrator) -- DE MUSSET, Alfred (1810-1857). Histoire d'un Merle Blanc . Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, L. Carteret & Cie., 1904. Large 4° (345 x 253mm). Title printed in red and black with integral vignette and details of limitation on verso, otherwise without text, 29 plates, each present in two states: pure etching and artist's proofs, by L. Boisson (with additional soft-ground work by Ch. Wittmann), all after Giacomelli, four leaves signed in pencil by Boisson. Contemporary green half morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, top edges gilt (light scuffing to spine). Provenance : Raphaël Esmerian (booklabel, sale Paris, 18 June 1974, lot 58). | £300–£500 | |
| GRIMM, Jakob Ludwig Karl (1785-1863) & Wilhelm Karl GRIMM (1786-1859)… | GRIMM, Jakob Ludwig Karl (1785-1863) & Wilhelm Karl GRIMM (1786-1859). Kinder- und Haus-Märchen . Berlin: Realschulbuchhandlung, 1812. Volume I only (of 3), 12° (170 x 101mm). With errata and appendix (title lightly soiled and lower corner lightly waterstained, margins of following few leaves lightly waterstained, severe but clean tear across N2 & N3 repaired, some light spotting, a few small ink stains). 19th-century half calf, spine ruled in gilt (extremities rubbed and scuffed, new endpapers). Provenance : Edward Cyril Simpson (bookplate) -- W.W. Dobson & Sons, Chester (booklabel). | £7,000–£10,000 |
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