Showing posts with label N. C. Wyeth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label N. C. Wyeth. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

No gamble for Ian Fleming in Bloomsbury auction.

There were a few items of mystery-related interest from Bloomsbury's September 3rd and September 10th auctions:
  • Leslie Charteris, The Saint and Mr. Teal, 1st US ed., 1933; The Saint vs. Scotland Yard, first US ed., 1932; unspecified Saint novel, £40 (approx. US$65)
  • Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile, 1st ed., 1937, plus two unspecified Christie novels, £180 (approx. US$293)
  • Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, 3rd English ed., illust. James Grieg, 1895, £400 (approx. US$651)
  • Ian Fleming, Casino Royale, 1st ed., 1953, £1700 (approx. US$2767)
And just because I'm a major fan of the illustrations of N. C. Wyeth: