He was best known as the drummer for the Rolling Stones - but away from the stage Charlie Watts was an avid collector of modern literature.
The signed copy of Gatsby leads the auction, with an estimated price of £200,000-300,000.
The first edition of the Sherlock Holmes' adventure Hound Of The Baskervilles is signed with the comment: "I perambulated Dartmoor before I wrote this book," a reference to the book's setting. He added: "I don't think he acquired them because he knew they would become valuable, he just took a huge satisfaction in owning these great works and tracking down, with the help of experts, original first editions."Books weren't the star's only passion. He also collected memorabilia from the American Civil War, antique silverware, vintage cars, drum kits and even a wardrobe of Edward VIII's Savile Row suits.
"If somebody was wearing a particular shirt on one of their classic album covers, then he had to have that shirt. It was completely informed by his almost hero worship of these musicians... because he just didn't think of himself as their equal."Some of those items are now being sold by the late musician's estate, with a particular focus on his favourite saxophonist, Charlie Parker.
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