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McLaren (Norman) & Others Painting featuring human figures in a wood, acrylic on board, dated 'May 1957', signed and dedicated "For Mrs Marion Leigh from Norman with love" on verso; together with: Le Pan (Douglas) The Wounded Prince and Other Poems, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to the Canadian animator Norman McLaren in 1948, lithograph device on title, light toning, quarter red cloth, original pictorial dust jacket, a little chipped, sunned and soiled, 4to, Chatto & Windus, 1948; Caracalla (Jean-Paul- Robert Pikelny, inscribed by the artist to the author A.J. Leventhal, colour reproductions of Pikelny's paintings, 4to, Editions Atelier D’Orsay, Paris, [1975?]: Meigs (Mary) Illustrations for two Novels by Marie-Claire Blais, SIGNED by the artist and the author on title,half title, black and white illustrations, red cloth, original pictorial wrappers, 1 small close tear, oblong folio, Exiles Editions, Toronto, 1977; Weissman Wilks (Claire) Hillmother, with a poem by John Montague, inscribed by the author to Marion Leigh, half title, pictorial wrappers, Exiles Editions, Toronto, 1983; with an exhibition catalogue of the Hillmother drawings, 1983, and another work (6) ***Provenance: from the collection of Marion Leigh. Marion Leigh was a friend and colleague of the Oscar award-winning experimental film animator Norman McLaren at the National Film Board of Canada in Ottawa in 1942. After she moved to London in 1946 to open the London office of the Film Board, Norman stayed in touch, sometimes visiting and staying in her apartment, and he occasionally brought and inscribed a picture.