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November sale. over More Issues, Yearly Sets, and Slipcases Available Online at FineBooksMagazine.com/store C reflect those of Journalistic, Inc. AUTUMN 2019 | 1 FB&C AUCTION Forum@Auction guide AUTUMN 2019 the maharishi propositioning English in Trieste, Italy— women, including actress mia where, according to Irish Farrow.” novelist and journalist Colm According to Powell, Tóibín, the author “grew up.” A Day in the Life Harrison and Lennon main- “This work is one of only tained an interest in medita- four inscribed copies of Letters at Forum’s September sale offer a tion and Indian culture that Dubliners to appear at auc- rare look at the Beatles’ time in India. would later influence their tion in the last fifty years,” personal lives and their works. Powell says. “That makes it “Although these letters highly desirable and collect- aren’t written by any of the able, even if the book itself very other month, ters, which paint a vivid pic- ELondon-based Forum ture of life around the Beatles, Auctions hosts a Fine Books, the maharashi, and a coterie manuscripts, and Works on of other celebrities who Paper sale at the Westbury spent time together Hotel in mayfair. Since 2016, in India in 1968. Forum has curated fine books “The Beatles trav- sales both in place and online, eled to Northern specializing in antiquar- India early that ian books and manuscripts, year to study tran- as well as old master prints, scendental med- drawings, and other works itation,” Powell on paper. The company’s says. “The visit had September 26 sale will feature a varied effect a wide array of books across on them—Ringo collecting spectrums, as well Starr and Paul as some very interesting man- mcCartney left uscripts and letters. early, but George A highlight, according to Harrison and John Letters from various authors, discussing Forum’s deputy chairman Lennon stayed at an ashram the Beatles’ time in India, 1968. Estimate £5,000 to £7,000. and head of books Rupert in Rishikesh until April, when Powell, is a group of let- they left following rumors of Beatles themselves,” he says, isn’t considered especially “the content is extremely rare.” interesting, as it contains first- Presented in its original James Joyce, hand accounts of what they cloth binding and in fine con- Dubliners, were doing in India—and dition, the book has an esti- First Edition there are signatures from mated value of £100,000- Presentation Copy, inscribed George and John. It’s a great £150,000. to Beatrice lot for collectors interested in These items will feature Randegger, 1914. Estimate pop culture.” alongside many others in Joyce (James) £100,000 to In addition to the let- Forum’s September sale, The Dubliners, £150,000. first edition, [1914]. ters, which have an estimated including a letter from a Presentation copy signed by the author to Beatrice Randegger (née Richetti), one of his pupils value of £5,000-£7,000, Forum World War I surgeon, a 19th in Trieste, where he lived and taught English from c.1905-15. has also confirmed for the century Japanese watercolor One of only 4 inscribed copies of The Dubliners to appear at auction in the last 50 years. sale a first edition of James scroll, and a first English edi- Est. £100,000-150,000 Joyce’s Dubliners. The pre- tion of Friedrich Nietzsche’s sentation copy is dated in Thus Spake Zarathustra Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper the year of publication (1914) (1896). l m. oru and inscribed by the author F Auction: Thursday 26th September | The Westbury Hotel, 37 Conduit Street, London, W1S 2YF of y to Beatrice (née Richetti) Erin McPherson is a writer and editor Bidding and information: [email protected] | +44 (0) 20 7871 2640 based in Raleigh, North Carolina. She ourtes Randegger, who was a stu- C is an amateur collector of hardbound For more details, full viewing times and catalogues, please visit: forumauctions.co.uk ages dent of Joyce while he taught Dickens.