Other modestly priced record-breakers in the Norfolk sale included an 1897, first UK edition of a little known Jules Verne tale, Clovis Dardentor, at £360, and at £310 a signed copy in dust jacket of The Death of the Heart of 1938, the most expensive of Elizabeth Bowen’s novels recorded at auction.
A 1937 first of Edward Seago’s Caravan with a signed pencil drawing on the half title of ‘Tom’, a seated gentleman mopping his brow, was a third recordbreaker at £310.