Lot 158

Lot 158

Morpurgo, Michael. War Horse. First Edition, Illustrator's Signed Copy

Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller

Dec 5, 2024 10:00AM ET

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Morpurgo, Michael. War Horse

Kingswood (Surrey): Kaye & Ward, 1982. First edition. Signed on title-page by the author, Michael Morpurgo, as well as the illustrator, Victor Ambrus. 8vo. 142 pp. Publisher's glazed pictorial boards. With a typed letter laid in, addressed to Ambrus from the publisher, dated October 22, 1982: "We enclose your presentation copies and we shall be forwarding any reviews as we receive them."

Illustrator Victor Ambrus's retained presentation copy of War Horse. Apparently most copies of the first edition were originally distributed to school libraries, and have since become scarce. The book was adapted into a successful play in 2007, and served as the basis for Stephen Spielberg's 2011 film of the same name. A fine copy.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Provenance

From the collection of Justin G. Schiller

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