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WILLIAM STEIG Collection of 15 pen and ink dra

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WILLIAM STEIG
Collection of 15 pen and ink drawings.
Come and get me! * But I can mystify and terrify * You've ruined my life * Forgive me--I'm only human * But nature remains unchanged * Nothing escapes my notice * Let the leader of the cult do the worrying * I re-created myself * You'll have to take me as I am * I do what is expected of me * It pays to conform * Very few understand me * Meditation will reveal all expected of me * Spiteful little man. Pink ink stamp "Used in LIFE JAN 8 1940" and ink stamp "Please return to manufacturing dept. Random House, Inc., 20 E. 57th St., N.Y.C." verso * Untitled (Woman with Man Standing on a Chair). Each approx 145x125 mm; 5 1/2x5 inches (sheet). Each signed and titled in ink, lower margin.

Spiteful Little Man" was published in the "About People", Steig's first published book, published by Random House in 1939. The first 13 drawings were published in "The Lonely Ones" in 1942 by Duell, Sloan and Pearce.

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