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‘Twenty Thousand Leagues under the
Seas’
Jules Verne makes £14,000 at Chichester
A copy of Jules Verne’s ‘Twenty
Thousand Leagues under the Seas’ was included in the July 2004 sale of books
and manuscripts at Stride & Son Auctioneers, Chichester. Against strong
bidding it went to a London dealer for £14,000, including buyer’s premium. The
book, a rare early copy of the 1873 first English translation, was an unusually
good example in superb pictorial red cloth. It was sold as part of the private
reference library of Barnett Freedman, the artist and illustrator well-known
for his colour lithographic book jacket designs and work as an official Second
World War artist.
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The Victoria Cross group mounted as worn which
fetched £132,250.
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VC sells for £132,250
Spink’s have sold a Victoria Cross for
a massive £132,250 (hammer). It was awarded to Subedar Major and Honorary
Captain Agansing Rai, of the 5th Gurkha Rifles for his indomitable courage in
leading attacks under fire to recapture a key Japanese position in Burma in
1944. It is the only VC awarded to a Nepalese soldier offered at auction.
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