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Unique cache of Enid Blyton material up for sale
Antiquarian Books - 31 August 2010
A UNIQUE archive of original Enid Blyton material is being offered for sale by her elder daughter's estate at Ilkley auctioneers Hartley's on September 15.
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The original manuscript to <em>The Mystery of Tally-Ho Cottage</em>, complete with a note from Enid Blyton, which is estimated at £300-500 in Hartley's sale.
The train crash that cost Steinbeck ‘part of his brain’
Antiquarian Books - 26 July 2010
“ED seriously injured late today when train hit car – Ritch”. When a shocked John Steinbeck received this telegram in May, 1948, he left immediately for Monterey, California, but by the time he got there his good friend Ed Ricketts, the man he later described as being “part of my brain for 18 years”, was dead.
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Part of the Ed Ricketts lot, including the telegram that brought John Steinbeck the news of his friend’s fatal accident, sold by Bloomsbury Auctions in New York for $18,000 (£12,130).
Dust jacket helps Orwell reach record £86,000
Antiquarian Books - 29 March 2010
WHEN Aaron Dean was asked to catalogue a local collection of Modern Firsts at Gorringes' Lewes saleroom, he knew he was dealing with something special.
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The first edition of George Orwell's <em>Down and Out in Paris and London</em> that sold for &pound;86,000 at Gorringes.
Original superman issue becomes first $1m comic
Antiquarian Books - 01 March 2010
ACTION Comics ushered in the age of superheroes when its first issue hit the news stands in June 1938. On its cover was a curious character dressed in skintight blue and red lifting a green Chevrolet above his head, and the course of American pop culture was changed forever.
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The hallowed issue of <em>Action Comics</em> number 1, which marked the debut of Superman in 1938, sealed in a collecting slab and grade 8.0. It sold in a private sale conducted by Metropolis Collectibles for $1m.
Christmas Carol at the top of the tree
Antiquarian Books - 22 December 2009
A COPY of A Christmas Carol has now knocked Oliver Twist off the top of the tree to become the most expensive Dickens title ever sold at auction.
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Dickens' inscription to Eliza Touchet in an 1842 first issue of <em>A Christmas Carol</em>, sold for a record $240,000 (&pound;144,580) at Christie's New York on December 4.
PBFA and Oxfam settle dispute and agree a deal to work together
Antiquarian Books - 07 December 2009
THE Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA) and Oxfam have come to an agreement in their dispute over how the charity is affecting the secondhand book market.
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ABA mourn their president
Antiquarian Books - 23 November 2009
ONLY three weeks after it was announced that Antiquarian Booksellers Association president Alan Shelley was standing down because of ill health, we are sorry to report that he has passed away.
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Alan Shelley, who died last week.
Shelley steps down as president of ABA
Antiquarian Books - 09 November 2009
ALAN Shelley has decided that he can no longer continue as Antiquarian Booksellers Association president owing to illness.
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Oxfam defiant over attack by antiquarian book trade
Antiquarian Books - 28 September 2009
OXFAM remain defiant in the face of criticism from the antiquarian book trade who say the charity is threatening their livelihoods.
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Waterway records take £6600 in Shrewsbury
Antiquarian Books - 23 February 2009
JAMES BRINDLEY lies amongst these Rocks,
He made Canals, Bridges, and Locks...

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Part of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal archive that made £6600 at Halls on February 13.
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