Sven BERLIN (1911-1999) 'NOAH' A collection of texts and loo...

Hammer

£100

Sven BERLIN (1911-1999) 'NOAH' A collection of texts and loose drawings. The lot is made up of five folders, all related to Berlin's 1966 unpublished novel. Included is the original handwritten manuscript titled 'The Drunkenness of Noah', signed and dated at the beginning '15 Feb 1965' and at the end, 'Finished 24 Jan 1966'. A second folder is titled 'The Drunkeness of Noah. Meditations In A Courtyard. Notes.' which contains loose notes regarding the 'Winter' chapter of the novel (the earliest notes date back to 1939), there is also an early pencil drawing included 'Boy with a Shell', dated '39. The third folder is titled 'NOAH. Miscellaneous Pages', and includes a number of pages taken from the '1st Typescript' with handwritten annotations. The last folder is titled 'NOAH t.s'. Also included in the lot is a collection of six loose drawings, also exploring the theme of 'NOAH'. One of which is signed by Berlin, all are undated. 'NOAH' is one of Berlin's unpublished novels. Some of the text was included in 'The Flight of The Dragonfly: A Set of Short Stories', another of Berlin's other unpublished texts in 1983.