Books and Works on Paper

Widely varying plans outlining a faraway harbour and a slice of rural Yorkshire bring saleroom surprises

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

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”.

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

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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’.

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

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

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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‘Sherlockian scholar’ is the term Potter & Potter (20% buyer’s premium) uses to describe Robert Hess.

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Works by the three sisters including copies published under pseudonyms come to a Cambridge auction

Two of Jane Austen’s works, both from the same Wyoming collector’s estate, were stand-out lots in a May 11 sale held in Chicago.

One of the more remarkable results of recent weeks came in a May 3 sale at Freeman’s (26/21/15% buyer’s premium) of Philadelphia.

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Four-figure first edition du Maurier book comes in the trademark Gollancz design without pictures

Early English plays provided the principal attraction in a US saleroom