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Auction archive: Lot number 31

HILTON, JAMES. Lost Horizon. London: Macmillan 1933. 8vo, original green cloth, spine a trifle faded, pictorial dust jacket (two tape strengthenings on verso), half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front ...

Auction 09.12.1993
9 Dec 1993
Estimate
US$1,500 - US$2,000
Price realised:
US$2,185
Auction archive: Lot number 31

HILTON, JAMES. Lost Horizon. London: Macmillan 1933. 8vo, original green cloth, spine a trifle faded, pictorial dust jacket (two tape strengthenings on verso), half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front ...

Auction 09.12.1993
9 Dec 1993
Estimate
US$1,500 - US$2,000
Price realised:
US$2,185
Beschreibung:

HILTON, JAMES. Lost Horizon. London: Macmillan 1933. 8vo, original green cloth, spine a trifle faded, pictorial dust jacket (two tape strengthenings on verso), half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "To J.H. Tribe from James Hilton. Oct. 1933"; later re-inscribed below this by the author to a noted book collector: "For Earle Bernheimer with good wishes, James Hilton, May 1949." E.F. Bleiler, The Checklist of Science-Fiction and Supernatural Fiction (Glen Rock, 1978), p. 100. Hilton's very scarce novel (his fifth) about a secret Tibetan monastery called "Shangri-La."

Auction archive: Lot number 31
Auction:
Datum:
9 Dec 1993
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

HILTON, JAMES. Lost Horizon. London: Macmillan 1933. 8vo, original green cloth, spine a trifle faded, pictorial dust jacket (two tape strengthenings on verso), half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "To J.H. Tribe from James Hilton. Oct. 1933"; later re-inscribed below this by the author to a noted book collector: "For Earle Bernheimer with good wishes, James Hilton, May 1949." E.F. Bleiler, The Checklist of Science-Fiction and Supernatural Fiction (Glen Rock, 1978), p. 100. Hilton's very scarce novel (his fifth) about a secret Tibetan monastery called "Shangri-La."

Auction archive: Lot number 31
Auction:
Datum:
9 Dec 1993
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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