Auction Date:2013 May 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Signed book: In His Own Write. First edition. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. Hardcover, 5.5 x 7, 78 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page in blue ballpoint, “To Diz, You’re a great TURN, good God, from, John Lennon,” with “Lennon” struck through. Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: G+/None. Navy paper-covered boards; edges rubbed, with small tears at corners and spine-ends; laminate over exterior wrinkled/bubbled; textblock edges yellowed with few light spots of foxing; all pages attached, but binding glue brittle and cracking. Provenance: Christie’s, December 4, 2006.
Lennon personally gifted and inscribed this book to Dizz Gillespie (not the trumpeter) when he visited Lennon’s home, Kenwood, in Weybridge, Surrey. Brian Epstein had met Gillespie at a party in Los Angeles in 1964 during the Beatles second tour of the US and subsequently brought him back to London, where he signed him to NEMS as an aspiring actor and singer—in reality, Gillespie was his surreptitious partner. Epstein’s homosexuality was not public knowledge, but an open secret among his inner circle—and something that Lennon occasionally badgered him about. The word “turn” in Lennon’s inscription seems to be a case of clever wordplay, which could mean either ‘a showman’ or allude to ‘turning a trick.’ The relationship between Epstein and Gillespie quickly turned sour, with Gillespie attempting blackmail and becoming unpredictably violent. An incredibly unique piece with a terrific association within the Beatles inner circle.
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