Frankenstein and the fireproof book
A TYPED first draft of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer in which he uses real names of characters and places, not the pseudonyms of the finished book, carried a $100,000-150,000 estimate in a May 27 modern literature sale held in San Francisco by PBA Galleries but it joined a long list of unsold lots.
A 1960 first of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird in a jacket that made $13,000 (£7385) showed repa…