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The Dennis Wheatley 'Museum' - DW's Library
Dennis Wheatley's Library - modern first editions
Booksellers’ opinions
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Signed by the author, and one of the books selected
by the booksellers DW consulted
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one of the booksellers DW used, and from whom he
received a great many invoices over the years
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DW did not just trust to his own tastes. As he wrote in his auto-biographical volume 'Officer and Temporary Gentleman' :
'In the middle thirties I asked a dozen leading booksellers to let me have lists of twenty novels which, in their opinion, were the best published in this century. About half the lists named the same books; then each put down his personal favourites. Altogether the lists included thirty titles. I bought firsts of them all and in the past few years have re-read most of them.'
In monetary terms, some have fared better than others. While some have soared in price, others have been at a virtual standstill, especially if adjusted for inflation.
References : Officer and Temporary Gentleman Chapter 12 (to read what DW said,
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Phil Baker page 490
Provenance : Mr Perrin & Mr Traill - Private collection
Dulau invoice - reproduced with the permission of Special Collections, Leeds University
Library (MS 1942)
