£900
Noddy Watercolour. Harmsen van der Beek (1897-1953) - original preparatory watercolour, circa 1951, for the Frontispiece from Enid Blyton (1897-1968)'s First Edition of 'Noddy and his Car', published 1951, titled They got out of the Car and went into the Fair. They looked all around', on firm wove paper, inscribed in pencil above 'Book 3 / p 6' image and below image 'Includes 1 African / W Indies, 1 Asian / Golly replaced by Mr Sparks (everbody was there)', image 17.2cm x 12.3cm, sheet 25.2cm x 15.3cm. Provenance: Sotheby's, London, 29 October 1997, lot 80
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