![]() I am sure that the buyers of the individual books will be thrilled with their purchases. He said: "This is a triumphant conclusion to a wonderful project, which has involved the hard work and good will of so many people. Rick Gekoski, a rare book dealer and trustee of English Pen, curated the collection of annotated first editions for the sale. The event was attended by a number of authors whose works were featured, including Toibin, Helen Fielding, Jeanette Winterson, Frederick Forsyth, Ben Okri, Margaret Drabble, Andrea Levy, David Lodge, John Banville, Justin Cartwright and Wendy Cope. Yerko is also responsible for Illustrating the Ukrainian edition of Snow Queen (Snihova Koroleva in Ukrainian). His covers for the Ukraineian Harry Potter series are said to be among J. A copy of Colm Tóibín's The Heather Blazing was sold for £15,500. Vladyslav Yerko is an illustrator, who works with the major children’s book publishing house Ababahalamaha in Ukraine. ![]() In other lots, a copy of Julian Barnes's Metroland sold for £14,000, a copy of Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader fetched £11,000 and a copy of Seamus Heaney's Death of a Naturalist was bought for £17,000. She and others had been asked to "scribble second thoughts, marginalia or drawings" on a first edition copy of one of their books for the event, which raised £439,200 in total.Ī copy of Roald Dahl's bestselling children's book Matilda, containing new drawings by illustrator Quentin Blake, fetched £30,000, while an annotated copy of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Remains of the Day went for £18,000. The annotations by Rowling include comments on the process of writing and a section from an early draft of the novel, along with a number of illustrations drawn by her and a note on how she came to invent Quidditch, a sport played by characters in the books. ![]() The book, which was auctioned by Sotheby's at a charity sale in aid of the English Pen writers' association, was purchased by an anonymous bidder by telephone. A first edition copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, with author JK Rowling's notes and original illustrations, was sold for £150,000 at auction in London.
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