Bid to £2400, a signed and inscribed copy of Philip Pullman’s nowadays scarce first novel, The Haunted Storm of 1971, was an unexpectedly successful lot in an online modern literature auction held by Forum (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) on August 5.
As well as the presentation inscription on the half-title, where Pullman has crossed out the printed title and substituted the one he had wanted, ‘The Two Brothers’, it also contains two letters to the recipient.