Books & Periodicals

The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA) has launched a new two-day premier book fair to take place in Preston this summer.

Illustrious names feature under portraits in a book about flying heroes from the Second World War

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A 1954 edition of 'The Mousetrap' play script offered on June 6 at the Cotswold Auction Company (24% buyer’s premium) was inscribed by the author “For James Grout on our 6th birthday, Agatha Christie”.

Queen singer Freddie Mercury’s art and antiques collection is coming up for sale in September.

A print commemorating an 18th century example of British and American military cooperation was given as a present 200 years later to mark another joint success.

Hermann Historica’s (25% buyer’s premium inc VAT) huge series of sales in Munich included what it billed as ‘a key document from German history’.

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Annotation of 1803-04 work included in a single collection features remark about his mistress

As timing goes, the sale date for an album of handwritten letters, photographs and ephemera related to Sophia Duleep Singh (1876-1948) could not have been much better.

London’s two big book events running simultaneously reveal major sales with visitors to Firsts up by a third.

Periodicals were produced in a Scottish camp by inmates to make life a bit more meaningful

A huge plan used during the British Titanic inquiry was the top lot of Henry Aldridge & Son’s (22% buyer’s premium) latest auction dedicated to Titanic, White Star and Transport memorabilia.

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Charlotte Corday was the woman who assassinated the French Revolutionary journalist and politician Jean-Paul Marat.

The Stuttgart Rare Book Fair, Germany’s leading fair for the rare book and prints trade, is returning after the pandemic for an anniversary event from June 16-18.

Around 750 lots of comics featured in a May 10-11 auction held by Anderson & Garland (25% Buyer’s Premium) of Newcastle.

Leading the sale at Dominic Winter on May 17 was a highly unusual Elizabethan manuscript treatise on cheese and cheese making.

Peter Harrington Rare Books has sold a copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio with an asking price of £6.25m.