Name: Auction: Poem-of-the-Month Club Collection of 43 broadsides signed by the author
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 625 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale number: 694 Our July Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs sale was led by an important document signed by Sir Walter Raleigh, a very early edition of John Cleland's Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure (c.1755), a work better known to posterity as Fanny Hill, and a rare first edition of John Law’s Money and Trade Considered (1705). Additional highlights featuring in the sale included a first edition, first impression, paperback issue of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), a set of James Sowerby's The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain (1812-29) from the library of Andrew Carnegie, and an imposing 18th century atlas by Thomas Kitchin.

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including: Philip Larkin, The Explosion (2 copies); W. H. Auden, Natural Linguistics (2 copies); John Betjeman, A Wembley Lad and The Crem (2 copies, each with autograph correction); Stephen Spender, Art Student (3 copies); Thom Gunn, Last Days at Teddington (4 copies); Stevie Smith, Francesca in Winter; Robert Graves, Advice from a Mother; and other authors (Roy Fuller, Anthony Thwaite, John Fuller, Elizabeth Jennings, George Baker, Norman MacCaig, Peter Porter, Douglas Dunn, D. J. Enright, John Lehmann, Alan Brownjohn, Glyn Hughes, Alan Ross, Ian Hamilton, Gavin Ewart, Julian Symons, Norman Nicholson, Molly Holden, Philip Oakes, Harold Massingham, Ruthven Todd, Cecil Day-Lewis) (1 folder)

Collection of 43 broadsides signed by the author

Poem-of-the-Month Club

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Poem-of-the-Month Club

Collection of 43 broadsides signed by the author

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