Lot 230
Patrick O'Brian, George MacDonald Fraser, Hilary Mantel, and others
Literary papers from the collection of Collins editor Edwin Moore
Estimate: £300 - £500
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Folder of material relating to The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (1993), including: Patrick O'Brian, draft introduction to Mansfield Park, word-processed, 5 ff., rectos only; Reginald Hill, draft introduction to Emma, 7 ff. + title-leaf, with typed covering letter signed by Hill mentioning Dalziel Pascoe; Paul Boateng, draft introduction to Sense and Sensibility, 4 ff., fax with House of Commons letterhead; and others similar;
Folder of material relating to the Complete Novels of Charlotte and Emily Bronte (1993), including Hilary Mantel's draft foreword for Jane Eyre, word-processed, 9 ff., rectos only, with 2 copy faxes from Edwin Moore to Hilary Mantel;
George MacDonald Fraser, draft foreword for Bill Tidy's Book of Quotations (1998) 2 ff., word-processed, with word-processed covering note signed by Fraser, with a related autograph letter signed to Edwin Moore from Bill Tidy, dated 2001, in envelope with Fraser's printed address label verso;
Thom Gunn, typed letter signed, 2000, declining an invitation to write an introduction to the Times Book of English Verse ('I don't really approve of anthologies, of which there are far too many already …');
Germaine Greer, draft biography of William Shakespeare for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: The Alexander Text (1994), word-processed, 8 ff., rectos only, signed by Greer in black ink (quantity)
Provenance
The recipient Edwin Moore was a senior editor at Collins (subsequently HarperCollins) in Glasgow from 1986 until 2004.
