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Auction archive: Lot number 189

LARSSON, STIEG. [THE MILLENIUM TRILOGY], IN SPECIAL BINDING BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, 2010

Estimate
£10,000 - £12,000
ca. US$13,347 - US$16,017
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 189

LARSSON, STIEG. [THE MILLENIUM TRILOGY], IN SPECIAL BINDING BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, 2010

Estimate
£10,000 - £12,000
ca. US$13,347 - US$16,017
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Larsson, Stieg [THE MILLENIUM TRILOGY], MACLEHOSE PRESS, QUERCUS, 2010 8vo, 3 volumes, boxed set edition, maps by Emily Faccini, SPECIALLY BOUND IN A UNIQUE BINDING BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE in crushed black morocco, gilt designs on upper covers illustrating the themes in the titles of dragon, hornet's nest and fire, spines with black onlays lettered in silver together forming the author's name, additional onlays in red and white with titles of each volume (the first also with the original title, "Men Who Hate Women"), row of five silver studs on the upper covers, these interlocking with square red grooves on lower covers, all edges gilt, red endpapers, all within binder's black morocco case incorporating an additional folder with a letter of rejection in Swedish from the Institute of Applied Psychology in Stockholm (addressed to the author as "493 S. Larsson" informing him at the request of the Joint Committee of Colleges of Journalism, that [translation] "unfortunately your performance in the written selection test was not up to standard of other applicants. We are therefore unable to offer you a place at any College...in the autumn of 1972..."), WITH AN ORIGINAL PENCIL PORTRAIT BY STEIG LARSSON ON THE REVERSE, some slight wear to case

Auction archive: Lot number 189
Auction:
Datum:
11 Dec 2017 - 12 Dec 2017
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Larsson, Stieg [THE MILLENIUM TRILOGY], MACLEHOSE PRESS, QUERCUS, 2010 8vo, 3 volumes, boxed set edition, maps by Emily Faccini, SPECIALLY BOUND IN A UNIQUE BINDING BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE in crushed black morocco, gilt designs on upper covers illustrating the themes in the titles of dragon, hornet's nest and fire, spines with black onlays lettered in silver together forming the author's name, additional onlays in red and white with titles of each volume (the first also with the original title, "Men Who Hate Women"), row of five silver studs on the upper covers, these interlocking with square red grooves on lower covers, all edges gilt, red endpapers, all within binder's black morocco case incorporating an additional folder with a letter of rejection in Swedish from the Institute of Applied Psychology in Stockholm (addressed to the author as "493 S. Larsson" informing him at the request of the Joint Committee of Colleges of Journalism, that [translation] "unfortunately your performance in the written selection test was not up to standard of other applicants. We are therefore unable to offer you a place at any College...in the autumn of 1972..."), WITH AN ORIGINAL PENCIL PORTRAIT BY STEIG LARSSON ON THE REVERSE, some slight wear to case

Auction archive: Lot number 189
Auction:
Datum:
11 Dec 2017 - 12 Dec 2017
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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