Gorringe's Auctioneers Spring Fine Sale 2022
Fine Art & Antiques Auction Tuesday 8th March 2022 Gorringe's the leading fine arts and antique auction house in the South East. 15 North Street Lewes BN7 2PE Viewing on: Friday: 9am to 5pm Saturday: 9am to 1pm Sunday: CLOSED Monday: 9am to 4pm Day of sale: 8am to 9:30am www.gorringes.co.uk clientservices@gorringes.co.uk
Fine Art & Antiques Auction
Tuesday 8th March 2022
Gorringe's the leading fine arts and antique auction house in the South East.
15 North Street
Lewes
BN7 2PE
Viewing on:
Friday: 9am to 5pm
Saturday: 9am to 1pm
Sunday: CLOSED
Monday: 9am to 4pm
Day of sale: 8am to 9:30am
www.gorringes.co.uk
clientservices@gorringes.co.uk
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10<br />
BOOKS, EPHEMERA AND FURNITURE FROM GREENWAY HOUSE, DEVON, THE<br />
HOME OF DAME AGATHA CHRISTIE<br />
Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time, with an estimated 2.5 billion sales worldwide.<br />
Author of 66 crime fictions and 14 short stories, together with the world’s longest-running<br />
play - The Mousetrap, with over 27,500 performances, over 46 years.<br />
Lots 1 - 78 offer collectors a rare opportunity to acquire pieces originally in the ownership of<br />
Dame Agatha, including a number of her own signed and inscribed books, her personal dictionaries,<br />
writing materials and an extremely rare valentine. Lots 1-53 were purchased from the<br />
Greenway sale, 54-78 from other sources. From 1938, Greenway House, with its 30 acre garden<br />
and 278 acre estate, became a much loved holiday retreat for Dame Agatha, particularly during<br />
the Summer months, until her death in 1976.<br />
Lot 1<br />
Lot 3<br />
Lot 5<br />
° Christie, Agatha - A Pocket<br />
Full of Rye, 1st edition,<br />
8vo, cloth, with d/j, indistinct<br />
presentation inscription on<br />
front free endpaper ‘For xxxx /<br />
with love from / Agatha / Nov.<br />
1953’), Greenway House copy,<br />
W. Collins for The Crime Club,<br />
London, 953<br />
Lot 2<br />
£800 - 1,200<br />
° Christie, Agatha - Dumb<br />
Witness, 1st edition, 8vo,<br />
cloth, (presentation inscription<br />
on front free endpaper (‘Punkie<br />
/ with love from / Ange’).<br />
‘Punkie’ was Agatha Christie’s<br />
nickname for her elder sister,<br />
Madge, Greenway House copy,<br />
W. Collins for The Crime Club,<br />
London, 1937<br />
£700 - 1,000<br />
° Christie, Agatha - A Murder<br />
Is Announced, 1st edition, 8vo,<br />
cloth, (presentation inscription<br />
on front free endpaper ‘With<br />
love from / Agatha / ??? 1950’),<br />
Greenway House copy, W.<br />
Collins for The Crime Club,<br />
London, 1950<br />
Lot 4<br />
£1,000 - 1,500<br />
° Christie, Agatha - Cards On<br />
The Table, 1st edition, 8vo,<br />
cloth, (presentation inscription<br />
on front free endpaper ‘with<br />
love / from / Agatha’), Greenway<br />
House copy, W. Collins for The<br />
Crime Club, London, 1936<br />
£1,500 - 2,000<br />
° Christie, Agatha - Ordeal By<br />
Innocence, 1st edition, 8vo,<br />
cloth, with d/j, (presentation<br />
inscription on front free endpaper<br />
‘Jack / from / Agatha / Oct.<br />
1958’). This seems likely to<br />
be an inscription either to<br />
the author’s brother-in-law or<br />
nephew, both named James<br />
Watts. Greenway House copy,<br />
W. Collins for The Crime Club,<br />
London, 1958<br />
Lot 6<br />
£1,000 - 1,500<br />
° Christie, Agatha - Destination<br />
Unknown, 1st edition, 8vo,<br />
cloth, with d/j, (presentation<br />
inscription on front free endpaper<br />
‘James / with love from / Agatha<br />
/ Nov.1954’). This seems likely<br />
to be an inscription either to<br />
the author’s brother-in-law or<br />
nephew, both named James<br />
Watts. Greenway House copy,<br />
W. Collins for The Crime Club,<br />
London, 1954<br />
£1,000 - 1,500
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