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A cornerstone in any early football library is 'Association Football & The Men Who Made It', the history of the modern game in its first half-a-century as written by Alfred Gibson and William Pickford and published by Caxton in 1905.

Over 300 watercolours were produced for each one of the 60 copies of a remarkable ornithological work

Erik Weisz (1864-1926) launched his monumental career as the illusionist Harry Houdini in 1891 as a specialist in card tricks.

First edition of Defoe’s final novel fought over by online bidders up to a hammer price of £16,000

Single-owner collection offered in south London reveals costumes and culture of the empire

Highlights from the The Detective Fiction Collection of John Cooper offered at Forum

Belgian city’s council was successful with pre-sale deal to buy queen’s plea on behalf of political prisoners

Published in 1598, John Florio’s 'A Worlde of Wordes, or most Copious, and Exact Dictionary in Italian and English' is considered the first comprehensive Italian-English dictionary.

Copies of the Lord of the Rings trilogy just don’t get much better than the set shown here.

Michael Ramsey (1904-88) who served as the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury from 1961-74, curated his own personal visitor book that tracked his career from 1942-87.

The inaugural sale at Rare Book Auctions (26.5% buyer’s premium) in Lichfield included this signed and inscribed first printing of Terry Pratchett’s 'The Colour of Magic'.

Dear Sir, I read with great interest Roland Arkell's account on page 41 of ATG 2660 of the geological books which sold for £6000 at Tennants on August 23.

First printed book dedicated to the game took the intriguing form of a heroic clash on Leith Links