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It is the largest private collection of Lennon's work to come to the market, the auction house said.\u003cbr/\u003eAmong the 89-piece collection's highlights is a cartoon of a boy with six birds that appeared in \"A Spaniard in the Works,\" published in 1965.\u003cbr/\u003e\"That was actually used as the cover for the single 'Free as a Bird,' which was the last full Beatles release that was taken from an earlier John Lennon recording that the surviving Beatles worked on,\" said Richard Austin, Head of Books and Manuscripts at Sotheby's New York. \u003cbr/\u003eThe cartoon has a pre-sale estimate of $12,000 to $15,000.\u003cbr/\u003eA nine-page manuscript, a Sherlock Holmes parody titled \"The Singularge Experience of Miss Anne Duffield,\" is estimated to bring $50,000 to $70,000.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The Fat Budgie,\" a beloved nonsense poem, could fetch between $25,000 and $35,000.\u003cbr/\u003eBefore becoming famous as a musician, Lennon had trained as an artist at the Liverpool School of Art.\u003cbr/\u003e\"John was someone who, as we all know, had a love of language,\" said Austin. \u003cbr/\u003e\"And he was particularly interested in puns and playing with language. And he was also a very accomplished cartoonist and what you see are the interaction of the short stories and poems in his books and the drawings he did to illustrate those.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"In His Own Write\" is a collection of 31 short stories and poems, full of puns and spelling errors, published in 1964. It was a big hit with reviewers who compared Lennon to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear.\u003cbr/\u003eA year later, \"A Spaniard in the Works\" was published, containing more humorous and nonsensical stories. The title is a pun on the British term \"a spanner in the works,\" similar to the American expression \"a monkey wrench in the works.\"\u003cbr/\u003eLennon once told the BBC his stories were short because he typed slowly. \"I couldn't be bothered going on,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, 29 May 2014\u003cbr/\u003e1. SOUNDBITE: (English): Richard Austin, head of books and manuscripts, Sothebys New York: \u003cbr/\u003e\"This exhibition is of John Lennon's original manuscripts for the two books he published 'In His Own Right, 1964, and 'A Spaniard in the Works', 1965. This is the first time this art work, the original art work, has been seen in the United States. In fact, it's very rarely, if ever, been seen in public.\"\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid tilt down: Lennon exhibit sign to sketches on display\u003cbr/\u003e3. Zoom in: Lennon drawing\u003cbr/\u003e4. Tight: small figure on bike in drawing\u003cbr/\u003e5. Tilt down: Lennon drawing with watercolor\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English): Richard Austin, head of books and manuscripts, Sothebys New York: \u003cbr/\u003e\"John was someone, as we all know, had a love of language and he was particularly interested in puns and playing with language. And he was also a very accomplished cartoonist. And what you see are the interaction of the short stories and poems in his books and the drawings that he did to illustrate those.\" \u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid: Lennon drawing\u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid: Lennon drawing\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English): Richard Austin, head of books and manuscripts, Sothebys New York: \u003cbr/\u003e\"There's one that is a drawing of a figure with birds around him. And that was actually used as the cover for the single 'Free As a Bird' which was the last full Beatles release that was taken from an earlier John Lennon recording that the surviving Beatles worked on.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Tilt up: Lennon drawing\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English): Richard Austin, head of books and manuscripts, Sothebys New York: \"The cover lot that shows a gentlemen sitting in a chair with a sort of floating fantastic creature in front of him. That again represents the fantastic side of Lennon's visions for the cartoons and drawings.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid: Lennon drawing\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English): Richard Austin, head of books and manuscripts, Sothebys New York: \"The entire sale is estimated at around a million dollars. The prices range from sort of 5-6-thousand dollars up to 15 or 20-thousand, depending on the size of the art work and manuscript content as well.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English): Richard Austin, head of books and manuscripts, Sothebys New York: \"This is actually the 40th anniversary of the publication of the first book in 1964. So it seems like a good opportunity to bring it up to the public again.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. 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