Books and Works on Paper
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Riddle of the jacket on Childers’ work
12 April 2021Lack of a dust jacket is not always crucial to a high price, as Erskine Childers’ much-loved The Riddle of the Sands of 1903 shows.
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Inspired by Sir Walter Scott
05 April 2021Talented amateur artist enjoyed riding excursions with the author to antiquarian sites
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Battle mags and Dr Who go into action
05 April 2021Publishers’ file copies of the first 199 issues of War Picture Library, pocket-sized and essentially pictorial publications of the years 1958-63, brought a bid of £3250 in a Comic Book Auctions (19% buyer’s premium) timed sale.
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Another Agatha Christie record
05 April 2021First published in the UK as a ‘Collins Crime Club’ title in 1970, an Agatha Christie novel brought a bid of £850 at Claydon Auctioneers (19.5% buyer’s premium).
British and Irish book auctions: April 6-17, 2021
05 April 2021Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.
British and Irish book auctions: March 30-April 17, 2021
29 March 2021Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.
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Hangman’s calling card is one of the highlights of a varied sale
29 March 2021Sold online for a far higher than predicted £600 in Norfolk on February 11 was a calling card of William Marwood (1820-83), who for many years was an official hangman.
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Handy little guide when you want to find a library book
29 March 2021Offered as part of a sale at Taylors (24% buyer’s premium) of Montrose with an estimate of just £20-30 was a catalogue of the library at Fasque House, or Fasque Castle as it is also known.
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From Zanzibar to the South Pole at Bonhams
29 March 2021A travel sale held by Bonhams (27.5/25/20/13.9% buyer’s premium) offered the usual mix of books, pictures, prints and photographs – and to very good effect in doubling the high estimate total.
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Journey that is far from over
22 March 2021Bonhams holds faith with specialist travel and exploration auctions
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How to get away with murder
22 March 2021Collection offered in London auction included Agatha Christie and other crime classics
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Mezzotint version of portrait takes 10 times the top estimate at auction
22 March 2021John Faber’s mezzotint version of a portrait by John Vanderbank of Nicholas Saunderson (1682-1739), a celebrated blind scientist and mathematician, was bid to 10 times the high estimate in a Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) general clear-out sale.
British and Irish book auctions: March 23-April 9, 2021
22 March 2021Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions
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Map shows heartfelt emotion
15 March 2021Sold at $34,000 (£25,185) apiece, two very different lots headed the bidding in a New York sale of December 17.
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Daily life and world history in one
15 March 2021A magnificent copy of Liber chronicarum, or ‘Nuremburg Chronicle’ as it is more familiarly known, made a record $350,000 (£265,150) at Bonhams New York.
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New York buyers curious about Dickens
15 March 2021Almost a hundred lots in a New York sale came from the extensive Dickens collections assembled over four decades by Martin Nason.
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Sale explores early America
15 March 2021Published in Paris, a 1613 first edition of a pioneering American exploration work sold for $160,000 (£114,285) in Philadelphia.
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Huge baths picture makes a big splash
15 March 2021At nearly 7ft high, a fine example of a four-sheet coloured lithograph of the Sutro Baths sold for $10,000 (£7355).
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British musical Leppard spotted in Indiana
15 March 2021Though a Bösendorfer grand piano topped bidding at $42,500 (£31,250) in a January 16 sale, the main attractions for many came from a different source.
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Books and works on paper: Grimm and wonderful buys
15 March 2021Famous brothers’ fairy tales take top spot in an exceptional selection of children’s works.
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