Latest News Articles by Ian McKay
Familiar fliers from New Naturalist but name of artist harder to place
20 March 2023The work of illustrator Robert Gillmor graces many books from a well-known natural history series
British and Irish book auctions: March 21-April 7, 2023
20 March 2023Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.
British and Irish book auctions: March 14-April 2, 2023
13 March 2023Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.
Long life down to good cooking?
13 March 2023Manuscript including recipes sold for £15,000 was written by a lady who died ‘aged around 100’
Maritime tale gains from Mark Twain inscription
13 March 2023A 1908, presentation first of one of WW Jacobs’ maritime tales, 'Salthaven', was the top lot in a sale held by Potter & Potter (20% buyer’s premium).
Dan Dare frustrates the Mekon in full colour art
13 March 2023Full-page artworks featuring Dan Dare and the unmistakable green features of the villainous Mekon were among the most successful lots in a Comic Book Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) timed online sale of February 26.
British and Irish book auctions: March 7-17, 2023
06 March 2023Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.
DNA discovery and damnation
06 March 2023Extraordinary letter by Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist both commends and condemns a colleague
School songbook signed by Winston Churchill for Jock is on tune
06 March 2023Available from the school’s own bookshop from 1937 was a printed collection of Harrow School Songs, but it was a rather special copy that sold for £7500.
Beautiful Kelmscott work... shame about the library stamp
06 March 2023Featured in an Oxford sale was a copy of the 1893, Kelmscott Press edition of The History of Godefrey of Boloyne and of the Conquest of Jerusalem.
Time and place for Hemingway
27 February 2023Inscription signalled one of American literature’s most significant editorial relationships
Napoleon document recognises exceptional bravery
27 February 2023There is some discolouring and it appears to have spent some considerable time folded up, but this early 19th century vellum document signed “Bonaparte” as Premier Consul was sold for £3000.
War hospital mag reflected mental and physical scars
27 February 2023Dating from November 1917, a copy of 'Hydra, the Magazine of Craiglockhart War Hospital of Edinburgh' was sold for a notably higher than expected £7500.
British and Irish book auctions: February 28-March 13, 2023
27 February 2023Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.
Warfare and witchcraft interest from a single owner collection
20 February 2023English history and law were the mainstays of an excellent collection sold in North Yorkshire
Jumbo-sized view of the world
20 February 2023Trebling its high estimate in a sale in Surrey was a large, in fact elephant folio-sized Atlas Royal… from c.1733
Jones of the Stones and Nipper of the Yard
20 February 2023A group of five autograph letters sent by Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones to a Miss Megan Jones in the years 1965-66 brought a bid of £4500.
British and Irish book auctions: February 21-March 23
20 February 2023Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions
Wish you were here… in the New World
13 February 2023Sixteenth century work edited by Hakluyt aimed to encourage English expansion and influence
British and Irish book auctions: February 14-28, 2023
13 February 2023Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.