Original drawings and poems created by John Lennon for his acclaimed books In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works will go on the auction block.
The books’ British publisher, Tom Maschler, has owned the material for a half century and is offering it for sale at Sotheby’s on Wednesday. It is the largest private collection of the Beatle’s work to come to the market, the auction house said, and prices range from $500 to $70,000.
Before becoming famous as a musician, Lennon trained as an artist at the Liverpool School of Art.
Among the highlights in the 89-piece collection is a cartoon of a boy with six birds that appeared in “A Spaniard in the Works,” published in 1965.