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Auction archive: Lot number 171

L. DURRELL, "DIARY AND ROUGH NOTES 1955"

Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,334 - US$2,002
Price realised:
£4,375
ca. US$5,839
Auction archive: Lot number 171

L. DURRELL, "DIARY AND ROUGH NOTES 1955"

Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,334 - US$2,002
Price realised:
£4,375
ca. US$5,839
Beschreibung:

Durrell, Lawrence AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK AND SCRAPBOOK ENTITLED "DIARY AND ROUGH NOTES 1955" with an introductory note recording that he "commences this .... in August 1955 after one year in the service of the Cyprus government during which he has had many experiences of different kinds the meaning of which has been lost owing to lack of time in which to record them for future use. Hence this attempt to record the everyday events of my life as from August 8th", including manuscript notes, quotations from Cavafy, family photographs including of his daughters Penelope and Sappho, his brother Gerald and wife Jacquie, and his friend Patrick Leigh Fermor, printed ephemera relating to Cyprus (including EOKA propaganda), envelopes, stamps, cuttings, and related material, c.55 pages, plus blanks, 8vo, 1955, bound in cloth covers of a copy of Pound's Cantos [with:] Magazine Littéraire, six issues, 1990s

Auction archive: Lot number 171
Auction:
Datum:
11 Dec 2017 - 12 Dec 2017
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Durrell, Lawrence AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK AND SCRAPBOOK ENTITLED "DIARY AND ROUGH NOTES 1955" with an introductory note recording that he "commences this .... in August 1955 after one year in the service of the Cyprus government during which he has had many experiences of different kinds the meaning of which has been lost owing to lack of time in which to record them for future use. Hence this attempt to record the everyday events of my life as from August 8th", including manuscript notes, quotations from Cavafy, family photographs including of his daughters Penelope and Sappho, his brother Gerald and wife Jacquie, and his friend Patrick Leigh Fermor, printed ephemera relating to Cyprus (including EOKA propaganda), envelopes, stamps, cuttings, and related material, c.55 pages, plus blanks, 8vo, 1955, bound in cloth covers of a copy of Pound's Cantos [with:] Magazine Littéraire, six issues, 1990s

Auction archive: Lot number 171
Auction:
Datum:
11 Dec 2017 - 12 Dec 2017
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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