Lot 16
  • 16

Ingman, Bruce

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Ingman, Bruce
  • The "First Editions: Re-covered" copy of:
  • book with new dust-jacket
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. Hamish Hamilton, 1951. 8vo, first English edition, original blue boards lettered in silver, browning to endpapers, slightly bumped

WITH AN ORIGINAL DUST-JACKET BY BRUCE INGMAN, 193 by 492mm., Indian ink, acrylic, coloured pencil and collage, signed and dated by the artist ("Bruce Ingman October 2017") with note by the artist

Condition

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Catalogue Note

Bruce Ingman is a multi-award-winning illustrator and author who has exhibited worldwide. His first book When Martha’s Away won the National Art Library Award in 1996 and in the same year he also won the prestigious Mother Goose Award for the most exciting newcomer to children’s books.

“I first read this book at 18 and it’s had a lasting impact on me. So, in a way, it chose me to illustrate a cover (I couldn’t not do it). I knew it had to reflect my emotional connection rather than being too narrative. Also its setting has always been significant”