Books, Maps & Prints 2020 (31 May 2020)

FOREWORD

• Sponsor’s message: We live in challenging times…

COLLECTING DICKENS

• Charles Dickens books: A market always wanting more
• ‘The dust and mud of humanity’
• Saving the Pickwick Papers
• Dickensiana: 13 lots relating to Charles Dickens sold at auction in recent times

COLLECTOR INTERVIEWS

• Crime scene investigator
• Great War dust jackets

PREVIEWS

• UK Auction Previews of Books, Maps and Works on Paper – including an autograph letter by Robert Burns
• International Auction Previews of Books, Maps and Works on Paper – including a group of Franz Kafka documents

AUCTION REPORTS

• Wide-ranging PG Wodehouse collection in Philadelphia features both popular and less well-known works
• Illustrations: Potter and Shepard’s animal magic
• British and Irish book auctions: May 26-June 7, 2020

DEALER NEWS

• How distancing brings us closer: booksellers produce joint catalogues in lockdown
• Ancient classic stars in tech-savvy catalogue
• Dealers Online: ATG's selection of 39 books, maps and works on paper available from dealers' websites

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