Books & Periodicals

A tiny Oxfam shop in Headington, Oxfordshire, was celebrating after a set of 12 books dropped off by an anonymous donor later sold at Bonhams for £13,000 (£16,640 with premium).

Courtesy of Dava Sobel’s 1995 best-seller, the compelling story of a Yorkshire horologist’s struggle to receive a prize for creating a reliable and accurate method for determining longitude at sea is well known.

Two separate lots at the recent books and manuscripts sale held by TW Gaze (26.4% inc VAT) in Diss, Norfolk sold at £20,000.

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Changes are afoot in the art and book dealing hub Cecil Court this summer.

Photo albums contain some of the first images of the remote country plus enthronement of the Dalai Lama

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Kirkby Lonsdale is the first of three fresh PBFA fairs this year with Frome and Dorchester to follow

This extraordinary Persian manuscript sold by Roseberys (26% buyer’s premium) is a translation of 'Voltaire’s Histoire de l’empire de Russie sous Pierre-le-Grand' and his 'Histoire de Charles XII, Roi du Suede'.

Scarce complete small pamphlets produced by the fairy tales author Hans Christian Andersen come to auction ‘for first time’

A fine association copy of Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice was sold by Reeman Dansie (25% buyer’s premium) in Colchester on April 30.

Bibles from the Mulberry House sold well at Sworders in Stansted Mountfitchet

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Nine-strong collection of Georgian and Victorian games counts as a highlight of mixed auction

US auction offers lots ranging from mutiny on the Bounty to polar tales and a starry menu

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

Event generates decent sales and a lively atmosphere during a busy weekend overall for collectors and dealers