Apr 08, 2010 - Sale 2209

Sale 2209 - Lot 301

Price Realized: $ 540
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
WHEATLEY, DENNIS. Inscribed and Signed volumes. Group of 5 early First Editions. 8vo, cloth or wrappers; dust jackets as issued. Condition varies. London: Hutchinson, 1930s-40s

Additional Details

The Eunuch of Stamboul. Dust jacket laminated and with cellotape repairs on verso. Inscribed in month of publication and with a note on the "works by" page: "Copies of this early book must now be rare in such good state. D. W." [1935] The Quest of Julian Day. Dust jacket laminated. [1939] Total War: A Paper. Thin 8vo, wrappers. Inscribed to a friend with the note: "30,000 words of the original 120,000 to which this paper ran in its first (typed) form for private circulation in H. M. G)" [1940] Mediterranean Nights. [1942] V for Vengeance. In addition to the inscription is a partially mounted TLS by Wheatley to the owner agreeing to sign and mentioning that he has been installed in the Air Ministry as a Flying Officer since the beginning of 1942. [1942].