Secret wartime diary in Somerset sale
A highly secret wartime diary kept by a member of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) is to be sold at
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Books
Winnie-the-Pooh Hundred Acre Wood Map sets Sotheby’s record
An original Winnie-the-Pooh Hundred Acre Wood map by EH Shepard has sold for £430,000, setting a new auction record for
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American First Edition Wuthering Heights for sale
To mark this year’s 200th anniversary of the birth of Emily Brontë, bookseller Peter Harrington is selling offering a first
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World’s first computer geek Lady Ada Lovelace book in sale
She is recognised as one of the world’s first computer geeks, a Victorian visionary and the only legitimate child of
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Howard Carter Letters sell for thousands
Letters written by Howard Carter, the British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the sealed tomb of Tutankhamen, have sold for
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Sylvia Plath Bell Jar sells for thousands
The author Sylvia Plath’s own signed, pre-publication copy of The Bell Jar has sold at Bonhams for £87,500. The book is inscribed
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Beatrix Potter letters make thousands
A collection of Beatrix Potter letters, hand-written by the author of countless children’s classics,has sold for thousands in Berkshire
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Signed Suffragette book set for sale
A Suffragette book signed and inscribed by campaigner for women’s suffrage Sylvia Pankhurst is to be sold at Essex auction house
Read moreBeatrix Potter letters in Berkshire sale
A rare collection of Beatrix Potter letters is to sell in a Berkshire auction house later this month
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‘Shocking’ Georgian sex manual in sale
The weird beliefs of our Georgian ancestors are laid bare in a ‘shocking sex manual’. The antique book is coming up for sale soon in Derbyshire
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