Sotheby's (London)

(27 cm), 95 (9) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 323 lots. List of prices realised loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. Sale of “a major part (though not all)” of Hobson’s collection of modern English literature. “There can be no doubt that this sale has achieved a new canon for prices for the works of writers in English in this century” (quotations from saleroom report in The Book Collector, Autumn 1996, pp.373-374). “In the future, a book which has in its provenance ‘Hobson sale, Sotheby’s 1996’ will have a special cachet” (from catalogue introduction by Bevis Hillier). A sale of “Modern literature : the personal collection of Anthony Hobson” was conducted by Christie’s South Kensington, 10 June 2015. ¶ Unmarked copy.