The drawings featured in Lyon & Turnbull’s rare books and manuscripts sale.
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Original drawings by Roald Dahl which were found in an envelope have sold for almost £24,000.
The collection of sketches were produced by Dahl in black ball point pen for his memoir, Boy (1984), in which he describes his experience of growing up.
In Roald Dahl's five-decade long career, these were the only sketches he ever created for his books.
Unusual illustration, to be sold by Cheffins, was part of surrealist artist’s abandoned Arabian Nights project
Painting spotted by dealer at Cambridge sale expected to fetch up to £30,000 at auction
The Salvador Dali painting will be auctioned off after having been snapped up at a house clearance.
The archive of papers included a signed copy of Turing’s 1939 PhD dissertation Systems Of Logic Based On Ordinals.
Illustration of ‘old sultan’ by surrealist artist found at a house clearance sale by Cambridge antiques dealer
Wartime codebreaker Alan Turing’s scientific papers sell for £465,000 at auction
