Books and Works on Paper

There is some discolouring and it appears to have spent some considerable time folded up, but this early 19th century vellum document signed “Bonaparte” as Premier Consul was sold for £3000.

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Inscription signalled one of American literature’s most significant editorial relationships

Dating from November 1917, a copy of 'Hydra, the Magazine of Craiglockhart War Hospital of Edinburgh' was sold for a notably higher than expected £7500.

A group of five autograph letters sent by Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones to a Miss Megan Jones in the years 1965-66 brought a bid of £4500.

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Trebling its high estimate in a sale in Surrey was a large, in fact elephant folio-sized Atlas Royal… from c.1733

English history and law were the mainstays of an excellent collection sold in North Yorkshire

This single-page letter offered on January 19 by Mellors & Kirk (24% buyer’s premium) tells the remarkable story of Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori (1762-1829).

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Sixteenth century work edited by Hakluyt aimed to encourage English expansion and influence

Extraordinary collection generates £64,000 bid for collaborative works by the playwright and poet

Lot sold for multiple-estimate sum in Cumbrian sale relates to a notorious election in Northumberland

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A copy of the very first 'Superman' comic of 1939 that came to auction in the US was not in the finest of conditions, indeed rated only VG/FN 5.O.

Small group of the author’s ever-popular works makes a big impression at Gloucestershire saleroom

Lot offers US editions of two science-fiction and fantasy classics by the US writer

An early 19th century transformation game featured at Mellors & Kirk (24% buyer’s premium) in Nottingham as part of a January 17 sale.

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Signed presidential and other politically significant documents and letters brought high bids at a Heritage (15/20/15% buyer’s premium) sale, but more costly than those lots was this photograph of Marilyn Monroe.