Dahl sketches are set to fetch £30k at auction

ORIGINAL drawings which children's author Roald Dahl produced for his memoir are to be sold at auction

- By Sarah Ward

ORIGINAL drawings which children's author Roald Dahl produced for his memoir are to be sold at auction after being found in an envelope which belonged to a colleague.

The sketches were created in black ballpoint pen for Boy, which was published in 1984.

Dahl died in 1990 aged 74 and Boy is the only book which he produced illustrations for during his career of almost five decades.

The sketches will be sold in Edinburgh as part of Lyon & Turnbull's books and manuscripts sale tomorrow. They are part of a collection estimated to sell for between £20,000 and £30,000.