Books & Periodicals

Last August, Caitlin Riley, rare book specialist at Bristol and Bath-based Auctioneum, was making headlines around the world.

The records for JK Rowling’s early work sold at auction keep tumbling, both hardback and paperback

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

A set of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings realised a premium-inclusive $250,000 (£187,500) at Heritage Auctions of Dallas.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Storms and the threat of snow could not dampen the spirits of rare booksellers and buyers in York for the first PBFA fair of the 2026 book calendar.

Lots from the Royal Society of Medicine boost Christie's sale result to best of its type since 2016

Pairing old with new has become a familiar tactic in the art market.

In the light of world focus on Greenland, would-be collectors of polar ephemera might head to PBFA member Stuart Leggatt and his website Meridian Rare Books that has masses of it.

A scarce copy of Beatrix Potter’s 'The Fairy Caravan' sold for £3000 in Tennants’ (24% buyer’s premium) Books, Maps & Manuscripts Sale.

As he died more than a decade before the medium really took off, very few photographs of the American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) exist.

A rare first edition of Enid Blyton’s first published book, Child Whispers, hammered at £1400 in the Thomson Roddick (20% buyer’s premium) book sale on December 4.

His image appears in seemingly every possible format, from postage stamps to chocolates and biscuit tins.

Auctioneer finds out there are two variations of the 1875 guide, but a record is achieved nevertheless

For more than 40 years I have owned a bundle of 18th and 19th century Scottish family letters.

In February in New York, Sotheby’s will offer for sale one of the most important illustrated Hebrew Prayerbooks to come to market: The Rothschild Vienna Mahzor.