A rare UK first edition of TS Eliot's The Waste Land
that was donated to an Oxfam bookshop has been sold for £4,500 at auction.
The book of the
modernist poem, dating from 1923, was published by Hogarth Press, founded by
Eliot's friends Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
It was given to
Oxfam's Turl Street branch in Oxford and had been expected to sell for between £2,000
and £3,000.
Shop manager
David Sorrell described it as "a wonderful item".
The type in the
donated book is thought to be hand-set by Virginia Woolf. It is part of an
edition of about 460 copies.
It was donated
by Colin Cohen who was given the book by a relative.
The book was
among more than 25 items given to Oxfam shops around the country that were
auctioned by Bonhams.
They included a
collection of etchings of ancient and modern Rome by Giuseppe Vasi, which was
donated to Oxfam's bookshop in Stratford upon Avon and sold for £4,200.
Two Japanese
photo albums, with photos by Kozaburo Tamamura and Felice Beato, donated to
Oxfam's Bridport bookshop, sold for more than £1,500.
Source: BBC
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