Lot 229: NEILL, JOHN R[EA]. 1877-1943. Original pen-and-ink drawing over pencil, "All the Munchkin family remained outside, looking up and down the street for help,"

NEILL, JOHN R[EA]. 1877-1943.
Original pen-and-ink drawing over pencil, "All the Munchkin family remained outside, looking up and down the street for help," depicting Munchkin children and Blue Mules, 140 x 190 mm. Matted and framed.Published: The Wonder City of Oz (Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., 1940), p 198.Number Nine's brothers and sisters try to help him retrieve the magic turn-style stolen by two gnomes. The drawing must have illustrated some other passage in Neill's original manuscript because the published text makes no reference to the three Blue Mules pictured here and in the drawing of Sir Hokus on the opposite page.