Latest News Articles by Ian McKay
British and Irish book auctions: September 1-16, 2020
31 August 2020ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from September 1-16, 2020.
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Scottish play opens in NY
24 August 2020Edition of Macbeth that once belonged to actor Charlton Heston.
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Thomson takes pride
24 August 2020Firsts of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice have made as much as £115,000* at auction.
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Golden oldies: abbey archive and penitential work for preachers
24 August 2020Sold at £140,000 in the first of two early manuscript sales held by Bloomsbury Auctions (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) on July 8 was a lot featured in the front page story in ATG No 2447.
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Through the Glasgow looking glass
24 August 2020Featured in Previews, ATG No 2449, was an amusing illustration of the Vacuum Tube, a proposed new means of mass transport from the pages of the Glasgow Looking Glass, a publication that has come to be widely regarded as the world’s first comic.
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Comic effect
24 August 2020The two ink drawings reproduced here both made substantial sums in a June 27 sale of comic strip artwork held in Paris by Artcurial.
British and Irish book auctions, August 25-September 12, 2020
24 August 2020Our regular listing of British and Irish book auctions.
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Signed Oscar Wilde work is among literary highlights of a mixed auction
17 August 2020Spread over two days and running to 600 lots, a very mixed sale held by Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) included Oscar Wilde’s 'The Importance of being Earnest' as one of the literary high spots.
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Chase is on for hunting accounts
17 August 2020Arnold ‘Jake’ Johnson’s library of thousands of volumes covering travel, big game hunting – the focus of the three lots featured here – sporting and other fields is being dispersed by Doyle (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) in various live and online auctions in New York.
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Kelmscott Press copy tempts bidders at Hindman
17 August 2020A number of higher-priced lots featured in a sale held by Hindman (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) of Chicago this summer, where fine binding was very much in evidence on both individual volumes and sets.
British and Irish book auctions: August 18-September 3, 2020
17 August 2020Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions, August 18-September 3, 2020.
Seeing stars for the first time
10 August 2020Copy of newspaper containing what became the US national anthem makes sale appearance
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Glasgow comes to the aid of Greece
10 August 2020Each bearing estimates of £300-400, two lots in a summer online auction held by Forum Auctions (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) brought substantially higher rewards.
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Savvy caddy makes a happy golfer
10 August 2020One of the specialist golfing sales held by PBA Galleries (20% buyer’s premium) of San Francisco included the work of a Scottish-born designer of golf courses who is said to have laid out some 400 of them.
British and Irish book auctions: August 11-30, 2020
10 August 2020ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from August 11-30, 2020.
British and Irish book auctions: August 4-20, 2020
03 August 2020ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from August 4-20, 2020.
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Letters feature prominently in exceptionally varied Edinburgh auction
03 August 2020An exceptionally varied and very successful recent Scottish sale contained a great many letters and plenty of fascinating manuscript material.
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Copy of Viscount Kingsborough’s 'Antiquities of Mexico' sells at Christie's in New York
03 August 2020Christie’s New York (25/20/13.5% buyer’s premium) recently staged two important book sales online that between them raised almost $3.38m, including premiums.
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Copy of David Roberts' The Holy Land owned by its creator
20 July 2020Unusual proof example of mid-19th century work was a copy which belonged to David Roberts.
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Last and lawless Just William makes appearance at Keys
20 July 2020Published in 1970, 'William the Lawless' marked the last appearance in full book form of Richmal Crompton’s much-loved schoolboy hero – almost 50 years on from the publication of the first, 'Just William' of 1922.