![]() ![]() ![]() Highlights from the collection included Paul Morand’s ‘ Paris de Nuit or Paris After Dark’ that sold for £1,500 and a group lot of volumes by James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Kay Boyle and George Braque amongst others sold for £1,600. Despite its worn condition, the volume far exceeded its £500-700 estimate.Įlsewhere in the sale, the Chris Casson Collection of Early 20 th Century Literature, which has a particular focus on Modernist literature, and the expatriate writers who gathered in Paris in the 1920s, sold well. The volume, sold at Tennants Auctioneers, was published by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and is an example of the second state of the first issue of the first edition. A first edition of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ has sold at a North Yorkshire auctioneer for a hammer of £4,200. ![]()
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