Uncle Fred, Scoop and Pooh do well in Oxford

Pictured are two modern firsts, both in rather chipped jackets, from the book section of a September 7 sale held by Mallams of Oxford. P.G. Wodehouse’s Uncle Fred in Springtime of 1939 was sold for £100, while Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop of the previous year reached £210.

In the same sale, firsts of Now We Are Six (1927) and The House at Pooh Corner in the red pictoriall…

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