Luxist

Christie's New York auctioned off the The Kenyon Starling Library of Charles Dickens earlier this year. The collection included remarkable manuscripts, presentation copies, playbills, and original drawings. The collection is part of the William E. Self Family Collection. Bill Self moved to Hollywood in 1944, and appeared in numerous films, including The Thing, I Was a Male War Bride, Story of G.I. Joe, Red River and Sands of Iwo Jima and later became a highly successful producer for both television and motion pictures and the President of Twentieth Century-Fox 's Television Division. He was an avid book collector and met Kenyon Starling while bidding on rare books. Both had a taste for Dickens and traveled the world visiting major bookshops. The collection includes important autograph and manuscript material including an extremely rare manuscript page from the original manuscript of the Pickwick Papers shown above. The sale brought in $1.917 million. 15/12/08