Inscribed copies of the works of Dodie Smith were among the attractions of a July 30 sale held by Stride & Son (18% buyer’s premium) of Chichester.
They formed part of the estate of the late writer and publisher, Jon Wynne Tyson, founder of the Centaur Press.
Sold at a record £3600 via thesaleroom.com was a 1956 first of The Hundred and One Dalmatians, inscribed “To Jon, with love from Dodie…”, while bid online to that same sum, again a record, was a lot presenting a similarly inscribed copy of the 1948, first US edition of I Capture the Castle.