John Lennon school book for auction
Published December 13th, 2005
One of John Lennon’s old school exercise books is expected to fetch up to £90,000 at a forthcoming auction.
Compiled by Lennon in Liverpool in 1952, the book contains eight drawings in pen, pencil and watercolour, depicting verses from classic poems.
One of the poems was Lewis Carroll’s The Walrus And The Carpenter which inspired the 1967 Beatles song, I Am The Walrus.
The book will go on sale on Thursday at Sotheby’s in London.
The brown paper-covered book, inscribed with the words My Anthology, was kept by Lennon’s teacher at Quarry Bank High School, Lancelot Burrows.
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