Sold for £420 in an August 24-25 sale held by Keys (17.5% buyer’s premium) was a 1939 first of Maurice Gorham’s The Local, with its 15 coloured litho illustrations by Edward Ardizzone – one shown left.
In the original pictorial, paper-covered boards, this is a work that owes its scarcity value in part to the fire that engulfed publisher Cassell’s premises during the Blitz.