Books and Works on Paper

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

Spotlight on copy sold in superb Strutz collection – plus a look at other recent results for the Tolkien classic

William Strutz’s library built within his home in Bismarck, North Dakota, consisted of some 15,000 books, which the attorney began assembling while in college in the late 1950s

Codex stands out as some of the world’s most important manuscripts come to auction in London

It’s not often that you hear the phrase “grandmother of the vendor, by repute the first woman in the world to jump through a flaming hoop on the back of a horse”.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) epitomised the power of words and, on June 25, that is what bidders had the chance to own in the form of those penned by the political and spiritual leader himself in a letter to his friend, South African architect Hermann Kallenbach (1871-1945).

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

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

A landlord and tenancy agreement signed by Freddie Mercury in 1986 was among the highlights of the Autographs and Memorabilia at Chiswick Auctions (25/12% buyer’s premium).

First edition of key Mormon work lists Joseph Smith as ‘author and proprietor’ of text not ‘translator’

The Fonsie Mealy Chatsworth Summer Rare Books & Collectables Sale on July 30-31 includes a private collection of works by Jack B Yeats, The Cuala Press and modern Irish and English literature.

Only 29 books from the library of John Keats are recorded - among them a 1679 printing of the collected works of the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser given to him by the artist Joseph Severn (1793-1879).

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

Naturalist produced a fish-focused work featuring nearly 3000 original watercolours across 50 copies

The original artwork for 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone' sold at Sotheby’s for $1.6m (£1.3m) plus 20% buyer’s premium in New York on June 26.

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

Little-known work by the Yorkshire author dating from 1927 is boosted by dedication to Suffragette friend

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

Hammer falls at 24 times the top estimate as Scandinavian buyer snaps up highly unusual collection