Bonhams, Oxford Saleroom
Books, Maps and Photographs
Books, Maps and Photographs
On
November 25, the Books, Maps
and Photographs sale will take place at 11.00am at Bonhams’ Oxford
Saleroom. This auction promises to be a varied and interesting sale with a number
of star pieces and items of particular note.
The auction features
an impressive selection of Agatha Christie books including an attractive first
edition copy of Death on the
Nile (Lot 273) which is being auctioned with an estimate of £1,000
– 1,500. There are a large number of Rackham’s in this sale and unusually there
are two copies of Peter Pan (lots 245 (£2,000 – 3,000) and 311 (£1,500 –
2,000)). Both copies have been signed by the illustrator.
Another intriguing lot is the large collection of the John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack, 1900, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1914; complete 1920’s run apart from 1926; 1930, 1931, 1934, 1936, 1938; and a complete run from 1940 to 2011 (Lot 18). This is a fascinating collection of books with an estimate of £2,000 – 3,000.
Another item to draw your attention to is lot 35. This is a particularly rare, hand-coloured panorama of the Royal Progress. Only two copies of Robins’s panoramic representation of the Queen’s Royal Progress through the City of London, on the 9th November, can be found on WorldCat. This beautifully coloured item is estimated to sell for £300 – 500.
Quite topically, lots 44 – 47 in this sale are related to World War I. These lots include printed ephemera charting life in Coblenz during the Allied occupations of the Rhineland as well as photographs relating to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Mesopotamia. Lot 47 also includes printed ephemera assembled by Major Wilfred Edmund Royds of the Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry. The estimates for these four lots range from £300 – 500 and £500 – 700.
Another star item of our November 25th sale is lot 307: The colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett. This is a first edition of the first ‘Discworld’ novel. The first printing is said to have comprised of 500 copies, but 400 of these were seemingly issued to libraries making fine copies difficult to come by. The printed overlay found on the inner front flap of most copies was pasted over the original blurb as a result of inaccuracies spotted when the jacket was returned from the American printers.
To learn more about the books for auction in our November sale please view our online catalogue which can be found here .
The auction features
an impressive selection of Agatha Christie books including an attractive first
edition copy of Death on the
Nile (Lot 273) which is being auctioned with an estimate of £1,000
– 1,500. There are a large number of Rackham’s in this sale and unusually there
are two copies of Peter Pan (lots 245 (£2,000 – 3,000) and 311 (£1,500 –
2,000)). Both copies have been signed by the illustrator.Another intriguing lot is the large collection of the John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack, 1900, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1914; complete 1920’s run apart from 1926; 1930, 1931, 1934, 1936, 1938; and a complete run from 1940 to 2011 (Lot 18). This is a fascinating collection of books with an estimate of £2,000 – 3,000.
Another item to draw your attention to is lot 35. This is a particularly rare, hand-coloured panorama of the Royal Progress. Only two copies of Robins’s panoramic representation of the Queen’s Royal Progress through the City of London, on the 9th November, can be found on WorldCat. This beautifully coloured item is estimated to sell for £300 – 500.
Quite topically, lots 44 – 47 in this sale are related to World War I. These lots include printed ephemera charting life in Coblenz during the Allied occupations of the Rhineland as well as photographs relating to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Mesopotamia. Lot 47 also includes printed ephemera assembled by Major Wilfred Edmund Royds of the Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry. The estimates for these four lots range from £300 – 500 and £500 – 700.
Another star item of our November 25th sale is lot 307: The colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett. This is a first edition of the first ‘Discworld’ novel. The first printing is said to have comprised of 500 copies, but 400 of these were seemingly issued to libraries making fine copies difficult to come by. The printed overlay found on the inner front flap of most copies was pasted over the original blurb as a result of inaccuracies spotted when the jacket was returned from the American printers.
To learn more about the books for auction in our November sale please view our online catalogue which can be found here .
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War library to close
A
petition has been launched calling on the government to reverse a £4m. cut in
annual funding at the Imperial War Museum. Unfortunately the cut has left the
museum with no alternative but to close its unique library with the loss of
some eighty jobs.
The question being asked is if it is fitting to close the library immediately after it has played its part in marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War?
The question being asked is if it is fitting to close the library immediately after it has played its part in marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War?
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Unknown Dylan Thomas notebook discovered
"The
most exciting Thomas discovery since his death in 1953"
Given by Thomas's mother-in-law to a member of household to be incinerated
Rediscovered more than 70 years later
Estimated £100,000-150,000
As the world celebrates the centenary of the birth of the Dylan Thomas, Sotheby's announces the most exciting manuscript discovery since his death in 1953. The exercise book, which contains 49 handwritten poems, will be the most important poetical manuscript by Thomas ever to appear at auction when it is offered at Sotheby's London on 9 December.
This previously unknown and unrecorded notebook contains a series of 19 poems written during his urgent burst of creativity in the 1930s. The scratchings-out, doodles and revisions that mark the pages offer a unique insight into the creative process of one of the world's most loved poets.
Given by Thomas's mother-in-law to a member of household to be incinerated
Rediscovered more than 70 years later
Estimated £100,000-150,000
As the world celebrates the centenary of the birth of the Dylan Thomas, Sotheby's announces the most exciting manuscript discovery since his death in 1953. The exercise book, which contains 49 handwritten poems, will be the most important poetical manuscript by Thomas ever to appear at auction when it is offered at Sotheby's London on 9 December.
This previously unknown and unrecorded notebook contains a series of 19 poems written during his urgent burst of creativity in the 1930s. The scratchings-out, doodles and revisions that mark the pages offer a unique insight into the creative process of one of the world's most loved poets.
Thomas
appears to have left the book behind during one of his many stays at the house
of his mother-in-law, Yvonne Macnamara, during the 1930s. Evidently, Thomas had
a fractious relationship with his mother-in?law, illustrated in a letter
written by Thomas to a friend while staying at the home:
"…This flat English country levels the intelligence, planes down the imagination, narrows the a's, my ears belch up old wax and misremembered passages of misunderstood music, I sit and hate my mother-in-law, glowering at her from corners and grumbling about her in the sad, sticky, quiet of the lavatory…"
This letter will also be offered as part of the sale on 9 December (est. £2,000-2,500). Perhaps glad to rid the house everything to do with Thomas, Yvonne Macnamara gave the exercise book to a member of the household staff, Louie King (c.1904-1984), with instructions to incinerate it in the kitchen boiler. King decided against it, sparing the precious book and recording the event in a note attached to the cover:
"This Book of Poetry by Dylan Thomas was with a lot of papers given to me to burn in the kitchen boiler. I saved it and forgot all about it until I read of his death…"
The book has remained with the family of Louie King, hidden in a drawer and unknown to Thomas scholars, only emerging now more than fifty years after his death.
"…This flat English country levels the intelligence, planes down the imagination, narrows the a's, my ears belch up old wax and misremembered passages of misunderstood music, I sit and hate my mother-in-law, glowering at her from corners and grumbling about her in the sad, sticky, quiet of the lavatory…"
This letter will also be offered as part of the sale on 9 December (est. £2,000-2,500). Perhaps glad to rid the house everything to do with Thomas, Yvonne Macnamara gave the exercise book to a member of the household staff, Louie King (c.1904-1984), with instructions to incinerate it in the kitchen boiler. King decided against it, sparing the precious book and recording the event in a note attached to the cover:
"This Book of Poetry by Dylan Thomas was with a lot of papers given to me to burn in the kitchen boiler. I saved it and forgot all about it until I read of his death…"
The book has remained with the family of Louie King, hidden in a drawer and unknown to Thomas scholars, only emerging now more than fifty years after his death.
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