Name: Auction: Lowry, L. S. (1887-1976) 'Little office worker', 1953
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 812 GBP
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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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Pen-and-ink sketch, signed 'Yours sincerely[?], L. S. Lowry 1953, Plough Inn', on manila paper (apparently an envelope), with various other signatures, mounted, framed and glazed, annotated on backboard ('Little office worker drawn by Mr Lowry ... L S Lowry signed 1960's envelope with Arthur Worton, at the Plough Inn (2nd visit) Saturday afternoon ...'), together with a copy of Mervyn Levy, The Paintings of L. S. Lowry, 1975, first edition, trade issue, signed by Lowry in pencil on the frontispiece, original cloth, dust jacket, front free endpaper excised (2)

'Little office worker', 1953

Lowry, L. S. (1887-1976)

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Lowry, L. S. (1887-1976)

'Little office worker', 1953

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