Books & Periodicals

I was very sorry to read about the death of ATG's antiquarian books columnist Ian McKay (Obituary, ATG No 2689). He was a good guy and occasional visitor here.

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Oxfam discoveries from a pile of donations include Chinese religious rarity, Communist manifesto and Dickens

Books dealership Peter Harrington’s latest catalogue explores how technology has shaped, controlled, and empowered the voiceless, while fuelling the flow of information and culture.

Ian McKay (November 22, 1945-February 19, 2025) was born on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, to Scottish father David McKay and English mother Alice Harland, who met while serving in the RAF during the Second World War. He went to school in Kent.

Paul Nash, looking back at the 1924-25 period when he taught design at the Royal College of Art, said: “I was fortunate in being there during an outbreak of talent and can remember at least eight men and women who have made names for themselves since then in a variety of different directions.”

Ian McKay's colleagues Mark Bridge, Ivan Macquisten and Anne Crane remember the late columnist

Book was published by champion of Swiss Calvinism four years before he became a Protestant martyr

Two unusual books took top honours at a Neumeister (30/27/25% buyer’s premium) auction in Munich, both achieving multiples of the estimates.

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One lucky bidder landed a top-of-the-line big game fishing rod made expressly for Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961).

Archive on offer in Missouri saleroom includes items relating to a landmark 1913 procession for women

The debut novel by F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), This Side of Paradise, was a sensation on its release in March 1920.

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Letter to Queen Elizabeth I written after Robert Dudley’s marriage lacks the earlier flirtatious tone

Before his death on St Helena, Napoleon Bonaparte said: “What nothing will erase, what will live forever, is my Civil Code.”