Tolkien Letter to Fan Revealing Creation of Lord of the Rings Character Up for Auction
London
Maddox Street – A letter signed by Tolkien’s secretary revealing the identity
of Estella Bolger, the wife of one of Frodo’s principal companions Merry
Brandybuck, is to be auctioned in London by Bloomsbury Auctions on Thursday
22nd October.
The letter, written
in response to an inquisitive fan, initially writes that “unfortunately the
answer is not recorded.” Tolkien however later went back to the letter to add
in his own hand; “I believe he married a sisted of Fredegar (Fatty) Bolger, but
I will look into the matter. I have some records of the family of the Bolgers
of Budgeford, whose lands were not far from Buckland but they were for lack of
space not included.” Max Hasler, Twentieth Century Literature Specialist at Bloomsbury Auctions commented; “Any letter from Tolkien is always interesting but to have one in which he materially adds to the Lord of Rings universe is almost unique.”
In a note of The People of Middle Earth, a work edited by Christopher Tolkien from the unpublished manuscripts of his father J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien writes “On one of his copies of the First Edition he added to the genealogy of the Tooks… ‘Estella’ as the sister of Fredegar and the birth-date 1385; and to the Brandybuck genealogy he added to Meridoc ‘=Estella Bolger 1385’, noting beside this that he told a correspondent in 1965 that ‘I believe he married a sister of Fredegar Bolger of the Bolgers of Budgeford.”
This letter, [Lot 106], in Bloomsbury Auctions’ 20th Century Books & Works on Paper sale is estimated to achieve £1,500-2,000 when it goes under the hammer on 22nd October 2015 at their Maddox Street saleroom.
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Bath Book Fair
PBFA Bath Book Fair Saturday October
17th Assembly Rooms Bath 10.30 – 4.30 Admission £2 The PBFA holds its second one day Fair in Bath's famous Assembly Rooms on October 17th
The wonderful Ballroom, where both Jane Austen and Charles Dickens appeared, will be host to forty dealers from all over Britain. A wide range of specialisms will be covered, with one notable inclusion being a collection of cricket books, mostly from the 1950s offered at very reasonable prices, the perfect way to remember a pulsating cricketing summer. Books will be on sale from a few pounds upwards.
Attendance was very good at the April one day Fair and the Fair Team, drawn from Bath Old Books and George Bayntun's, Bath's two premier antiquarian and second-hand dealers, are busy spreading the good word about the Fair. Already the Bath Magazine have made us The Editor's Pick in their What's On listings.
Further details from Bath Old Books – 01225 422244 and from Bayntun's 01225 466000.
See also PBFA website and Bath Book Fair on Facebook.
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Auction #46 Highlights Auction Running from 8 to 15 October 2015
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Lot 16 Machiavelli. Niccolo. The Florentine Historie. Written in the Italian tongue, by Nicholo Macchiavelli, Citizen and Secretarie of Florence. And translated into English by T. B. [Thomas Bedingfield] Esquire. Published: Printed by T.C. (Thomas Creede) for W. P.(William Ponsonby), London, 1595. Edition: First English Edition
A lovely copy in a fine period style binding of this rare work. "The first example in Italian literature of a national biography" (Britannica).
"In the ‘Florentine Histories’ Machiavelli has the chance to make the protagonists speak in their own voices to persuade or dissuade their fellow-citizens to uphold or reject a course. He can show deliberative rhetoric in action, and make ancient Florentines speak to the Florentines of his times to urge them with powerful and wise words not to imitate the errors that caused the decline of the city." Maurizio Viroli.
Estimate: $16,500
Lot 51 Presentation Copy Ernest Hemingway Green Hills of Africa Published: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935 Edition: First Edition Presentation copy signed and inscribed by Hemingway to close friend, Guy Hickock: "For Guy (look what/ I got out of your scrapbook/ now) with much/ affection, respect and the/ wish to be drunk with soon/ again/ Ernest".
Estimate: $20,000/25,000
Lot 18 Edgar Rice Burroughs The Beasts of Tarzan Published: A.C. McClurg and Company, Chicago, 1916 Edition: First Edition
In the extremely uncommon and completely unrestored first issue dust jacket.
Beasts of Tarzan is the third novel in Burroughs' series of Tarzan adventure stories.
In addition to the colour pictorial dust jacket, this volume contains a frontispiece and illustrated title piece by St. John as well as numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text.
Estimate: $6000/8000
Lot
49
Samuel Beckett En Attendant
Godot Pièce en Deux Actes
Published: Les editions de Minuit, Paris, 1952 Edition: First Edition
World famous, En attendant Godot is an absurdist play about two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, who converse in witty and amusing banter while they wait for Godot, who ultimately never arrives.
Beckett, an Irish author and native English speaker, moved to France and subsequently transitioned from writing in English to French, including this play. In 1954, Beckett translated this text from its original French into English, and it was published in London by Faber and Faber in 1956 under the English title Waiting for Godot. The play originally premiered in Paris at the Théâtre de Babylone in January 1953, and this true first edition uses the text from that production.
Estimate: $3000/3500.
Lot 138 Barrow, John, F R S; author of "Travels in China" Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa
In which are described the character and the condition of the Dutch colonist of the Cape of Good Hope, and of the several tribes of natives beyond its limits … natural history of the animal, mineral and vegetable kingdoms … geography … topographical and statistical sketch … importance as naval and military station, commercial emporium and territorial possession
Published: T Cadell and W Davies, London, 1806 Edition: Second
2 vols, near fine set of 2nd [and best] edition, 1806
For this edition, the sole dedicatee was Viscount Melville, "under whose auspices the extensive and important colony of the Cape of Good Hope was acquired an annexed to the British Empire" etc. In a 12 pp preface, the author thanks the public for their reception of the "unusually large" first edition
Estimate: $4000/6000
Lot 42 Riviere, Lazare (1589-1665) The Practice of Physick, in Two Volumes, Very much Enlarged. Wherein is plainly set forth, The Nature, Cause, Differences, and Several Sorts of Signs: Together with the Cure of all Diseases in the Body of Man. In Twenty and Four Books. … Written in Latin, and in English, By Lazarus Riverius, Counsellor and Physitian to the King, &c. Nicholas Culpeper, Physitian and Astrologer. Abdiah Cole, Doctor of Physick. And W[illiam] R[owland]
Published: Printed by Peter Cole, London, 1658
Estimate: $2000/2500
Lot 15 Milne. A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. With Decorations by Ernest. H. Shepard.
Published: E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc. New York., 1928. Edition: Signed, Limited First Edition.
First American Edition. Large paper limited edition issue on hand made paper. One of only 250 copies, numbered and signed by both Milne and Shepard.
Estimate: $3000
Next auction: Auction #47: 19 – 26 November 2015
Lot 16 Machiavelli. Niccolo. The Florentine Historie. Written in the Italian tongue, by Nicholo Macchiavelli, Citizen and Secretarie of Florence. And translated into English by T. B. [Thomas Bedingfield] Esquire. Published: Printed by T.C. (Thomas Creede) for W. P.(William Ponsonby), London, 1595. Edition: First English Edition
A lovely copy in a fine period style binding of this rare work. "The first example in Italian literature of a national biography" (Britannica).
"In the ‘Florentine Histories’ Machiavelli has the chance to make the protagonists speak in their own voices to persuade or dissuade their fellow-citizens to uphold or reject a course. He can show deliberative rhetoric in action, and make ancient Florentines speak to the Florentines of his times to urge them with powerful and wise words not to imitate the errors that caused the decline of the city." Maurizio Viroli.
Estimate: $16,500
Lot 51 Presentation Copy Ernest Hemingway Green Hills of Africa Published: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935 Edition: First Edition Presentation copy signed and inscribed by Hemingway to close friend, Guy Hickock: "For Guy (look what/ I got out of your scrapbook/ now) with much/ affection, respect and the/ wish to be drunk with soon/ again/ Ernest".
Estimate: $20,000/25,000
Lot 18 Edgar Rice Burroughs The Beasts of Tarzan Published: A.C. McClurg and Company, Chicago, 1916 Edition: First Edition
In the extremely uncommon and completely unrestored first issue dust jacket.
Beasts of Tarzan is the third novel in Burroughs' series of Tarzan adventure stories.
In addition to the colour pictorial dust jacket, this volume contains a frontispiece and illustrated title piece by St. John as well as numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text.
Estimate: $6000/8000
Lot
49
Samuel Beckett En Attendant
Godot Pièce en Deux Actes Published: Les editions de Minuit, Paris, 1952 Edition: First Edition
World famous, En attendant Godot is an absurdist play about two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, who converse in witty and amusing banter while they wait for Godot, who ultimately never arrives.
Beckett, an Irish author and native English speaker, moved to France and subsequently transitioned from writing in English to French, including this play. In 1954, Beckett translated this text from its original French into English, and it was published in London by Faber and Faber in 1956 under the English title Waiting for Godot. The play originally premiered in Paris at the Théâtre de Babylone in January 1953, and this true first edition uses the text from that production.
Estimate: $3000/3500.
Lot 138 Barrow, John, F R S; author of "Travels in China" Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa
In which are described the character and the condition of the Dutch colonist of the Cape of Good Hope, and of the several tribes of natives beyond its limits … natural history of the animal, mineral and vegetable kingdoms … geography … topographical and statistical sketch … importance as naval and military station, commercial emporium and territorial possession
Published: T Cadell and W Davies, London, 1806 Edition: Second
2 vols, near fine set of 2nd [and best] edition, 1806
For this edition, the sole dedicatee was Viscount Melville, "under whose auspices the extensive and important colony of the Cape of Good Hope was acquired an annexed to the British Empire" etc. In a 12 pp preface, the author thanks the public for their reception of the "unusually large" first edition
Estimate: $4000/6000
Lot 42 Riviere, Lazare (1589-1665) The Practice of Physick, in Two Volumes, Very much Enlarged. Wherein is plainly set forth, The Nature, Cause, Differences, and Several Sorts of Signs: Together with the Cure of all Diseases in the Body of Man. In Twenty and Four Books. … Written in Latin, and in English, By Lazarus Riverius, Counsellor and Physitian to the King, &c. Nicholas Culpeper, Physitian and Astrologer. Abdiah Cole, Doctor of Physick. And W[illiam] R[owland]
Published: Printed by Peter Cole, London, 1658
Estimate: $2000/2500
Lot 15 Milne. A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. With Decorations by Ernest. H. Shepard.
Published: E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc. New York., 1928. Edition: Signed, Limited First Edition.
First American Edition. Large paper limited edition issue on hand made paper. One of only 250 copies, numbered and signed by both Milne and Shepard.
Estimate: $3000
Next auction: Auction #47: 19 – 26 November 2015
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Tintin Tops the Table
A
rare drawing of comic book adventurer Tintin has sold for 9.6 million Hong Kong
dollars ($1.2m) at an auction in Hong Kong. The drawing, by Belgian cartoonist
Herge, is from his book The
Blue Lotus, set in Shanghai. The French auction house Artcurial
organised the auction.
It would seem that the work was the only original from the book still in private hands, and had been bought by an Asian collector. The Blue Lotus is considered by specialists as the masterpiece album of Herge as it was quite unusual to discuss China in Europe during the thirties.
This same auction house also facilitated the record-breaking sale of a hand-drawn Tintin In America cover for 2.65 million euros (about $3m) in Paris in May.
It would seem that the work was the only original from the book still in private hands, and had been bought by an Asian collector. The Blue Lotus is considered by specialists as the masterpiece album of Herge as it was quite unusual to discuss China in Europe during the thirties.
This same auction house also facilitated the record-breaking sale of a hand-drawn Tintin In America cover for 2.65 million euros (about $3m) in Paris in May.
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