A beaten-up copy of The Works of Edgar Allan Poe is expected to sell for over $20,000 at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago on August 9.
"The passionate collector's hoard Includes extraordinary writings by Keats, Gandhi, Blake and Churchill
Roy Davids, whose collection is now being offered at Bonhams, is the consummate collector, who has gathered fascinating items that bring the holder to a richer idea of persons and circumstances than the content of the pieces alone.
A previously unknown copy of a very rare book of early poems by William Blake is for auction at the Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs sale at Bonhams in London on 22 March. It is estimated at between £60,000-80,000.
In months to come, auctioneer Adventure House will be offering the Frank M Robinson Collection on their website.
The Fine Books and Manuscripts departments of Bonhams & Butterfields on the West Coast, and Bonhams on the East, are leaders in the sales of collectible printed and manuscript material.
I thought I'd give yaw'll a firsthand look at EBay book fraud and its persecution. A few years ago (about 3 years, I think) I bought a "signed" first edition copy of Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions.
A RECORD-breaking auction of books and drawings once belonging by the family who own Towcester Racecourse has raised nearly £15 million.
The sale at Sothebys' in London on December 16 featured first-edition copies of 'The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club' and 'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby', both signed by Dickens and inscribed to his friend Walter Savage Landor.
Perhaps the most astonishing thing about the sale of a copy of Audubon's Birds of America on Tuesday at Sotheby's for £7,321,250 is that it is not an especially rare book.
A copy of John James Audubon's Birds of America tonight became the most expensive book ever sold when it went under the hammer at Sotheby's for £7.3m. The auction was a rare chance to own one of the best preserved editions of the 19th century masterpiece, with its 435 hand-coloured illustrations, seen as a key volume on US natural history.
