Lot 109
Cornwell (Bernard) Sharpe's Gold, first edition, dedication copy, with numerous inscriptions by the author, 1981 & others to the same dedicatee (4)
Estimate: £600 - 800
Description
Cornwell (Bernard) Sharpe's Gold, first edition, dedication copy, signed by the author on title, additionally inscribed below printed dedication to Andrew Gardner "because if it hadn't have been for our dinner on Jan 23rd, 1979, no Sharpe book would ever have been written. Thanks! | Bernard", and with lengthy imagined extract from the novel featuring mention of a character called Gardner on front free endpaper, 1981; Sharpe's Siege, first American edition, 1987; Redcoat, first edition, 1987, each with numerous signed presentation inscriptions to Andrew Gardner on front free endpaper and titles, original boards, dust-jackets, light rubbing to extremities; and another edition of the first, also inscribed to Gardner, 8vo (4)
⁂ An excellent association group of works dedicated to friend Andrew Gardner.
Gardner, a former ITN newscaster and their Royal commentator since its inception, knew Cornwell from having run the ITN office in Belfast and evidently encouraged him to write, so that Sharpe's Gold is dedicated to him.
Description
Cornwell (Bernard) Sharpe's Gold, first edition, dedication copy, signed by the author on title, additionally inscribed below printed dedication to Andrew Gardner "because if it hadn't have been for our dinner on Jan 23rd, 1979, no Sharpe book would ever have been written. Thanks! | Bernard", and with lengthy imagined extract from the novel featuring mention of a character called Gardner on front free endpaper, 1981; Sharpe's Siege, first American edition, 1987; Redcoat, first edition, 1987, each with numerous signed presentation inscriptions to Andrew Gardner on front free endpaper and titles, original boards, dust-jackets, light rubbing to extremities; and another edition of the first, also inscribed to Gardner, 8vo (4)
⁂ An excellent association group of works dedicated to friend Andrew Gardner.
Gardner, a former ITN newscaster and their Royal commentator since its inception, knew Cornwell from having run the ITN office in Belfast and evidently encouraged him to write, so that Sharpe's Gold is dedicated to him.
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