Bonhams fine book sale takes place on 27th March atthe Montpelier Street galleries in Knightsbridge
The sale contains several signed works by Winston Churchill each withpresentation inscriptions to Neville Chamberlain including Great Contemporaries, The World Crisis and Marlborough – his Life and Times.On the flyleaf of the final volume of Marlboroughpublished in September 1938, just prior to the Munich Agreement, Churchill haswritten with a mixture of dark wit and prophecy, "Perhaps you may like to take refuge inthe eighteenth century."
The war-poet Richard Spender was killed in action in 1943 during OperationTorch. The Observerwrote that his free style had "a passionate appetite for all lively andbeautiful things." He himself wrote concerning his work, "It is ofpoems of now, & I hope they are full of the life, urgency & wonder thatis truth… the book's net tone is one (I hope) of optimistic resolve." Thisquotation is taken from one of numerous autograph letters and other papers torelatives and friends (including his three aunts who acted as his literaryagents) to be offered in March. The lot's central items are manuscripts of thenine poems published posthumously as ParachuteBattalion: Last Poems from England and Tunisia (November 1943) anda set of unbound page proofs for his first book of poems, Laughing Blood, one withcorrections and revisions seemingly by Spender.
Ronald Searle's illustrations provide a moving pictorial record of the war inthe East. Prior to his fame for illustrating the worlds of St. Trinian's andMolesworth he documented the brutal conditions and sufferings undergone as aprisoner-of-war in the Japanese Changi prison camp in Singapore, hiding almostthree hundred sketches under his mattress. The four pen and watercolour itemson offer here are an anniversary, Christmas and two birthday cards drawn bySearle and his cell-mates (illustrated)
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