Mantel (Hilary) Bring Up the Bodies, later impression, signed by the author, 2012; and others, Booker Prize winners and shortlists (27)

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Mantel (Hilary) Bring Up the Bodies, signed by the author on title, margins slightly toned, Booker Prize 2012 winner sticker on upper panel, 2012 Desai (Kiran) The Inheritance Loss, signed by the author on title, Booker Prize 2006 winner sticker on upper panel, 2006 Coetzee (J.M.) Summertime, bookplate signed by the author laid down on front free endpaper, 2009, later impressions, original boards, dust-jackets; and others, Booker Prize winners and shortlists, several with numbered stickers on spines, and many Booker Prize award pamphlets, 8vo (27) *** An excellent set of largely mid-2010s Booker Prize winners and shortlists. The first mentioned includes a programme for "A Celebration of the life of Hilary Mantel" held at Southwark Cathedral and the guestlist for the Booker Prize Awards Ceremony 2012. Dotti Irving is the founder of the communications agency Colman Getty which handled the Booker Prize from 1993 to 2022. During her 30 years of working on the prize, Irving got to know many of the writers involved and accumulated a library of winning books and shortlisted titles, many of which were signed by the authors. Colman Getty handled the submissions process, ensuring publishers’ books reached the judges. With around 150 titles and seven copies of each arriving annually, they devised a simple numbering system to track the books using small, numbered stickers.

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