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Letters and books marking the deep relationship between author EM Forster and policeman Bob Buckingham and his family sold for £9000.

Newly discovered papers show how renowned mathematician and his collaborator worked hand in hand

Few people can profess to know more about the 1910-12 Japanese Antarctic Expedition than the Arizona book dealer Chet Ross.

Held by the same private New England family since 1792, a copy of 'A Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean' complete with its map came for sale at Bonhams Skinner (28/26/20% buyer’s premium).

Astronomical manuscript for sale includes illustrations by scientist who was in fact an insurance broker

Among the many highlights of the Alan and Simone Hartman collection at Bonhams New York is a copy of the monumental catalogue of the famed Bishop collection of Chinese jades. The deluxe volume, once owned by the last tsar of Russia, carries expectations of $100,000-150,000 as part of the 114-lot dispersal on December 14.

A photograph by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98) - aka Lewis Carroll - was among the highlights of Hindman’s (26/20/15% buyer’s premium) October 19 sale of Photographs from the Joe Baio Collection.

ATG takes a look at some of the many dealer exhibitions being staged in the run-up to Christmas

A 1556 first edition copy of Welshman Robert Recorde’s The Castle of Knowledge was estimated at £5000-10,000 and made £12,600 including buyer’s premium at Hansons’ November 1 Library auction.

Follow-up edition of a classic avian work was more or less a new publication thanks to extra research

Agatha Christie and Evelyn Waugh records beaten as collection of a Rolling Stone comes to auction

Increased private buying plus overseas trade purchases boost the huge annual extravaganza of the York National Book Fair.

While its existence was known, the whereabouts was a mystery until a routine house valuation

The late 19th century Japanese artist Keika Hasegawa remains something of an enigma.

Boy wizard Harry Potter was up against prize fighter Daniel Mendoza for the top spot at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).

An unrecorded 17th century printed book took £8800 hammer at a West Sussex sale.

Large group of pugilist-related works was collected over more than 50 years by London couple

As co-publishers and editors of Firsts: The Book Collector’s Magazine established in 1991, Robin and Kathryn Smiley’s bookshelves were brimming with choice first editions from across the broad span of British and American literature.

The Book of Sports by Robin Carver is considered the first American publication to describe the sport of baseball.