Oxfam Holmes book fetches £15,500
A book handed into an Oxfam shop which contains the first Sherlock Holmes stories has sold for £15,500.
Study in Scarlet, which features Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first two Holmes tales, was donated to a Harrogate, North Yorkshire, branch of the charity.
It beat a guide price of £9,000 during an auction of books given to Oxfam stores at Bonhams in Oxford on Tuesday.
A first edition Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets sold for £360. The 97 lots sold for more than £30,000.
A copy of JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings went for £950 but a first edition of The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling failed to attract a buyer.
The money raised from the sale will go to fund Oxfam’s work around the world. (more…)
