Quite a while ago I posted about Hugh Walpole’s ‘Extracts From A Diary’ which he had printed in lieu of his 50th birthday party as he wasn’t well. They were limited to 100 copies and I have number 3 which came with a letter to Alan Bott, founder of PAN Books. I was speculating on where the others may have ended up and after writing a article for ‘The Hugh Walpole Review’ my list of 23 has expanded to 29 thanks to Rod Boroughs of the Hugh Walpole Society and Peter Henderson of the King’s School Canterbury.
03 Tim Kitchen (Alan Bott)
08 Maugham Library, The King’s School, Canterbury Somerset Maugham’s copy.
09 Library Of Congress
18 University Of Tulsa
25 The King’s School Canterbury from the R T Risk Collection
29 Yale University
37 National Library Of Scotland
40 Huntington Library
41 Sold by Biblio to ? S/C G/J
42 Godfrey Holdstock S/C
44 Stanford University
45 University Of Melbourne
46 Lilly Library
49 UCLA Library
58 Dee MacLean (Jack and Edith Eliot)
65 Alexander Turnbull Library
68 Sold by Harper Field Auctioneers to ? 2018 S/C
71 Simon Dunant
76 Ann Bolam Gifted by Hart-Davies S/C with George Cukor on it
80 Ann Bolam
81 Library of Congress (Jean Hersholt)
84 Boston University
87 University Of Texas
88 Bodleian Library
89 British Library
92 Cambridge University
93 London Library
94 British Library
100 University of York (Ronald Storrs) Gifted by Sir Rupert Hart-Davies
I’ve also included Walpole’s ‘The Crystal Box’ of which I have number131 or 150.
Just by coincidence I spotted a couple of titles linked by the word ‘Fear’, the first being ‘Reign of Fear’ with a cover by Ian Miller published as a PAN Horror and the second ‘The Grip of Fear’ with a cover by Sam ‘PEFF’ Peffer published by Digit. Sellers of the latter title can ask up to three figures for it but as to whether or not they sell for that I don’t know. What I do know is I got if for a price I was pleasantly surprised by.
This weeks ‘New Titles’ features ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and it is from mid 1975. It also highlights ‘The Rainbird Pattern’ by Victor Canning as “one of our finest and most consistently successful crime writers”
