Latest News Articles by Ian McKay
The ‘very prosy’ Miss Strickland
21 October 2019Diaries, journals and letters kept by Lady Anne Cullum (1807-95) of Hardwick House, near Bury St Edmunds, sold for a total of around £8000 in a recent East Anglian auction.
Where Judge Dredd rules and Eagles dare
21 October 2019Three pieces of original artwork were the big money spinners in a Comic Book Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) timed online sale on thesaleroom.com which closed on September 1.
Games make serious money
21 October 2019Offered at a recent sale at Mullock’s in Ludlow were three early-19th century games pitched at £150-200 apiece but sold at much higher sums.
Laying down Anglo-Saxon laws
21 October 2019A first portion of the library of the late Eric Gerald Stanley, a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University, featured in a recent auction at Mallams.
A beautiful Boccaccio binding
21 October 2019‘Grolieresque’ cover on 1527 edition of key Italian Renaissance work boosts auction value.
British and Irish book auctions, October 22-November 7, 2019
21 October 2019Our regular listing of British and Irish book auctions.
British and Irish book auctions: October 15-25, 2019
14 October 2019ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from October 15-25, 2019.
Famed Manhattan collection yields second tempting selection of first editions in New York
14 October 2019Graham Greene was a star turn when a second portion of the famed ‘Mystery Fiction’ collections and stock of Otto Penzler, proprietor of Manhattan’s ‘Mysterious Bookshop’, came to auction in New York on September 5.
Valentines come early at Hansons auction of the Judith Howard collection
14 October 2019Two early handmade Valentines from the Judith Howard collection of mourning jewellery, greeting cards andand other ephemera drew demand at Hansons latest sale at Bishton Hall, Staffordshire.
Arctic expedition group bears up well at Forum Auctions
14 October 2019A small but very successful section of a recent London sale offered a group of just eight lots related to the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-76.
‘Father of Parole’ outlines his views on penal reform
14 October 2019One exceptional and very successful lot in a recent Yorkshire sale focused on penal reforms on the far side of the world.
Murder tale grips the saleroom
07 October 2019Account of a double killing in 19th century Norwich heads a look at two-day auction.
British and Irish book auctions, October 8-19, 2019
07 October 2019Our regular listing of British and Irish book auctions.
News makes its way from the East Indies
07 October 2019Shown below are the frontispiece and title-page of Newes from the East-Indies..., a 1638 account by William Bruton of his travels in ‘Bengalla’.
Sci-fi collection is 442-lot sell-out success in Dallas
07 October 2019Several records were broken when all 442 lots in the Glynn & Suzanne Crain science-fiction collection sold in a US auction on August 13-14.
Diverse lots come together for auction selection in West Sussex
30 September 2019Variety was certainly in evidence in a West Sussex sale, where the teenage journal of a young stained-glass maker, two broadside ballads and an illustrated dummy for 'Down with Skool!' all brought much higher than predicted bids.
Edgar Allan Poe’s good times did not last
30 September 2019Though his works are now revered and highly valued in his native land, Edgar Allan Poe spent most of his writing life in debt. There were, however, a few months in the early 1840s when, while working in Philadelphia as an editor and contributor on 'Graham’s Magazine', he enjoyed some short-lived financial success.
Isaac Newton notes off to great start
30 September 2019It is the practice of one US saleroom to publish what are called ‘starting bids’ rather than an estimate range in its catalogues.
Buyer makes Suffrage choice
30 September 2019Bearing a modest estimate of £50-75 but sold instead at £800 by Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (23% buyer’s premium) on September 4 was a copy of 'Women’s Suffrage: a Short History of a Great Movement' (1912) by that renowned campaigner for women’s political rights, Millicent Garrett Fawcett.
British and Irish book auctions: October 1-15, 2019
30 September 2019Our regular listing of British and Irish book auctions.