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Auction archive: Lot number 74

A King's Story: The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor - with autograph note signed from King Edward VIII to M. Somerset Maugham

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$390
Auction archive: Lot number 74

A King's Story: The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor - with autograph note signed from King Edward VIII to M. Somerset Maugham

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$390
Beschreibung:

Title: A King's Story: The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor - with autograph note signed from King Edward VIII to M. Somerset Maugham Author: Duke of Windsor, Edward Place: New York Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Date: [1951] Description: (8vo) cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. A copy of the King Edward VIII's autobiography, with a letter laid in inscribed "To W. Somerset Maugham with best wishes from Edward. Christmas 1951" on stationery with embossed crown emblem at top, enclosed in one sheet of "Villa Mauresque" letterhead. Lot Amendments Condition: Several chips and tear along jacket edges and folds, many tape repairs on verso; a touch of white soiling to spine head; gilt-lettered leather name label of Charles Posey on half title; very good volume in good jacket. Item number: 248566

Auction archive: Lot number 74
Auction:
Datum:
13 Mar 2014
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: A King's Story: The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor - with autograph note signed from King Edward VIII to M. Somerset Maugham Author: Duke of Windsor, Edward Place: New York Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Date: [1951] Description: (8vo) cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. A copy of the King Edward VIII's autobiography, with a letter laid in inscribed "To W. Somerset Maugham with best wishes from Edward. Christmas 1951" on stationery with embossed crown emblem at top, enclosed in one sheet of "Villa Mauresque" letterhead. Lot Amendments Condition: Several chips and tear along jacket edges and folds, many tape repairs on verso; a touch of white soiling to spine head; gilt-lettered leather name label of Charles Posey on half title; very good volume in good jacket. Item number: 248566

Auction archive: Lot number 74
Auction:
Datum:
13 Mar 2014
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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