Name: Auction: [Kelliegram-style binding] The Collected Verse of Lewis Carroll
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 500 GBP
Availability: InStock

This June's Books &amp; Manuscripts auction is led by one of the most important collections of historical Scottish manuscripts ever offered for sale, containing no fewer than five letters signed by Mary Queen of Scots, with further letters and documents signed by James V, James VI and I, and Mary of Guise. &nbsp;The papers of Kilravock Castle, near Nairn in the highlands of Scotland, bring to life the history of the ancient Rose family as they fought for influence in a feudal society populated by child kings, doomed queens, jostling consorts and regents, and power-hungry bishops.From the 20th century, the highlight of the sale is a spectacular archive depicting the progress of Roald Dahl’s 1984 memoir Boy: Tales of Childhood from idea to print, and including 30 original ink sketches by Dahl. The Boy archive is one of several lots from the estate of the late Ian Craig (1944-2023), who was Dahl’s art director at Jonathan Cape while also working with celebrated figures including Judith Kerr and Ralph Steadman.The sale also offers a rich selection of children’s books and original artwork, rare works of travel and exploration, and fine bindings, together with original letters by figures including Winston Churchill and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and manuscripts and historical documents in fields ranging from science to the Napoleonic Wars.Buyer's Guide:

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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1932. 8vo, 20th-century blue morocco, covers decorated with ten pictorial vignettes built up from varicoloured morocco onlays, spine slightly rubbed and discoloured;&nbsp; Sendak, Maurice. In The Night Kitchen. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, [1995]. Inscribed by Sendak on the front free endpaper, twenty-fifth anniversary edition, 4to, original pictorial cloth, dust jacket;&nbsp; Sendak, Maurice (illustrator). Fortunia. A Tale by Mme D'Aulnoy. Translated and Adapted by Richard Schaubeck. New York: Frank Hallman, 1974. One of 300 copies signed by Sendak and the translator, 8vo, original wrappers;&nbsp; [Early dust jacket]. The Golden Staircase. Poems and Verse for Children chosen by Louey Chisholm with Pictures by M. Dibdin Spooner. London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1906. First edition, 4to, original cream cloth decorated in gilt, colour plates, dust jacket, inscribed ‘To Amy Steedman from Louey Chisholm, October 1906’, engraved bookplate of the recipient to front pastedown, a little spotting to contents, dust jacket with shallow loss to head of spine;&nbsp; and approx. 30 others, children's and illustrated books, including more by Maurice Sendak, Edward Ardizzone, etc. (approx. 35)

The Collected Verse of Lewis Carroll

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The Collected Verse of Lewis Carroll

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