Books & Periodicals

The first lot offered in Potter & Potter’s (20% buyer’s premium) auction in Chicago on September 10 was a 1939 first edition, first printing of 'Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism'.

Antiquarian bookdealer Lester Capon, 75, lives in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, with his partner Meg. He has always had a passion for books, starting with bookselling in retail, before embarking on a bookbinding career spanning six decades.

A collection of Second World War National Savings posters came for sale at Sworders’ (27/25/20% buyer’s premium) Open House timed online sale that ended on September 7.

The winners of the fifth annual David Ruggles Prize, an international book and works on paper collecting prize established in 2021 to support and encourage young collectors of colour, have been announced.

I read with interest your article printed in the August 29 edition entitled ‘Weighing in with a hefty result’ (see ATG No 2757).

An 18th century letter of marque pertaining to the privateer vessel Corbet, of Jersey, with wax seal attached, came up for sale at Channel Islands firm Martel Maides (20% buyer’s premium) on September 17.

Belief in divine ability to cure the sick persisted among Stuart heirs in exile even as the Jacobite dream died

Josephine Baker (1906-75) was not originally supposed to star in La Revue Négre, the now-legendary Parisian show performed by an all-black US cast recruited from Broadway.

Dealers report brisk business at York event in everything from religious texts to rave posters.

In December 1777, Mohammed bin Abdallah (c.1710-90), Sultan of Morocco, became the first head of state to recognise the United States as an independent country.

First editions of the British author’s follow-up to his first novella are scarce and in high demand

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

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

Such messages from second-class passengers on the liner are some of the rarest to be offered at auction

Arch Rare Books & Antique Prints offers a command notebook chronicling Admiral Nelson’s command of the HMS Bellerophon in 1799.

Film scholars have described Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon as “the greatest movie never made”.

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

Sale of 14th amendment document from 1867 coincides with Supreme Court case, happily for vendor