Books and Works on Paper

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from April 9-18, 2019.

A most unusual book binding brought a bid of £5500 in a recent Bonhams sale.

Bernard Middleton, MBE (1986), was a self-employed book restorer and designer bookbinder from 1953-2016.

Medical and scientific library includes landmark Vesalius study on human anatomy.

Signed to the front cover by all four members of the group, a 1963 ‘Star Special’ (No 12) issue of the fan magazine Meet the Beatles sold for £4200 at Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) on March 6. It also bore the name of a former owner, one RC Zebedee of Bournemouth.

A ‘turn-up’ religious text was one of the earlier, rarer and more expensive items in a Somerset sale.

A table game published by John Wallis called The Mirror of Truth was one of two notable juvenilia lots in the opening children’s and illustrated books section of a March 6 Devon sale.

The first of four sales scheduled by Morphets of Harrogate for the dispersal of a single private library will take place on April 3-4.

Our listing of British and Irish book auctions taking place from March 26-April 6, 2019.

Ornithological books and artworks have played their part in the success of two recent sales and a selection of just a few of those lots begins with books from the Ladwell library.

Though it sold just a touch under the lower estimate, a copy of the 1938 launch issue of Beano was the top lot in a Comic Book Auctions (19% buyer’s premium) timed auction of March 3 held on thesaleroom.com.

A Californian sale of March 7 certainly offered great variety in age, content and price range. Promoted as A Biblio-Medley for All Tastes, it ran to well over 500 lots across its printed and supplementary, online catalogues – with at least one lot, a volume of the works of Arthur Hallam, sold for just $10.

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from March 19-30, 2019.

Seventeenth century philosophical work sold in Sussex discusses nature of life and death.

The lot that gained all the publicity in a recent Shropshire sale, even national newspaper coverage, was a copy of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

Conducted by Christie’s Paris (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) in collaboration with Bertrand Meaudre of Paris dealer Librairie Landarchet, a February 20 sale featured the dispersal of the library of Marc Litzler for a premium-inclusive total of €4.4m (£3.82m).

The concertina-cut novelty pictured here is one in which a painted roundel of a cottage pulls up to reveal a large mouse.

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from March 12-23, 2019.

A very rare and inscribed example of CS Lewis’ first published work, a 1919 collection of verses previewed ATG No 2377, was sold recently in Oxford for £2800. Spirits in Bondage was part of the extensive book section of a January 30-31 sale at Mallams (23% buyer’s premium).

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from March 5-16, 2019.