Books & Periodicals

After 2600 issues Ian McKay is hanging up his much-used quill. The column on this week’s pages is his last for ATG.

Inscription by AA Milne using his nickname boosts price of a limited-edition copy to £21,000

A bound volume presenting the first seven issues of Magic Comic issued by DC Thomson in 1939 proved a highlight in a Comic Book Auctions (19% buyer’s premium) sale of June 4.

A handwritten letter by the 26-year-old Mozart coming up for auction at Christie’s reveals a tricky love life.

A rare work of 1767 called A Journal of a Voyage Round the World in His Majesty’s Ship The Dolphin… was offered by Thomson Roddick (20% buyer’s premium) in Carlisle.

Widely varying plans outlining a faraway harbour and a slice of rural Yorkshire bring saleroom surprises

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The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA) has launched a new two-day premier book fair to take place in Preston this summer.

Illustrious names feature under portraits in a book about flying heroes from the Second World War

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A 1954 edition of 'The Mousetrap' play script offered on June 6 at the Cotswold Auction Company (24% buyer’s premium) was inscribed by the author “For James Grout on our 6th birthday, Agatha Christie”.

Queen singer Freddie Mercury’s art and antiques collection is coming up for sale in September.

A print commemorating an 18th century example of British and American military cooperation was given as a present 200 years later to mark another joint success.

Hermann Historica’s (25% buyer’s premium inc VAT) huge series of sales in Munich included what it billed as ‘a key document from German history’.

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Annotation of 1803-04 work included in a single collection features remark about his mistress

As timing goes, the sale date for an album of handwritten letters, photographs and ephemera related to Sophia Duleep Singh (1876-1948) could not have been much better.

London’s two big book events running simultaneously reveal major sales with visitors to Firsts up by a third.