Books & Periodicals

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Spotlight on copy sold in superb Strutz collection – plus a look at other recent results for the Tolkien classic

William Strutz’s library built within his home in Bismarck, North Dakota, consisted of some 15,000 books, which the attorney began assembling while in college in the late 1950s

Codex stands out as some of the world’s most important manuscripts come to auction in London

It’s not often that you hear the phrase “grandmother of the vendor, by repute the first woman in the world to jump through a flaming hoop on the back of a horse”.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) epitomised the power of words and, on June 25, that is what bidders had the chance to own in the form of those penned by the political and spiritual leader himself in a letter to his friend, South African architect Hermann Kallenbach (1871-1945).

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper auctions

Ralph ‘Randolphus’ Ayres is recorded as being head cook at New College, Oxford at various times in the 18th century.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper auctions

A landlord and tenancy agreement signed by Freddie Mercury in 1986 was among the highlights of the Autographs and Memorabilia at Chiswick Auctions (25/12% buyer’s premium).

First edition of key Mormon work lists Joseph Smith as ‘author and proprietor’ of text not ‘translator’

The Fonsie Mealy Chatsworth Summer Rare Books & Collectables Sale on July 30-31 includes a private collection of works by Jack B Yeats, The Cuala Press and modern Irish and English literature.