Books and Works on Paper

From late 1940 to early 1941 André Breton and a group of other Surrealists including Wifredo Lam, Max Ernst, Oscar Dominguez, Victor Brauner, André Masson and Frédéric Delanglade re-located to Marseille where they anxiously awaited visas to escape occupied France.

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A postcard carried on the world’s first official airmail flight came up for auction in Staffordshire.

Firmly in the British jingoistic ‘boy’s own’ tradition, a collection of Commando comic books turned heads when offered at Stourbridge saleroom Fieldings last year (see ATG No 2556).

Apocrypha sold at auction was his personal copy and then inscribed by descendants who later owned it

Thomas Bradshaw has been described as a poor civil servant but a brilliant artist.

In recent times the work of newspaper cartoonists has been reassessed with a nod to its artistic, technical and historical merit.

A setting with lots of water next to valuable books may not seem an obvious fit but it was a successful match

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Collecting genre is being boosted by fresh bidders with deep pockets who work in the technology sector

A group of drawings which helped develop the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew have been temporarily blocked from export in the hope a UK buyer can step in.

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'Antipodum, nobis, incognita': how a great southern land is labelled (“the Antipodes unknown to us”) in one of the first mentions in print.

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Shown here is a copy in Latin of the 'Quirtii Horatii Flacci' opera, 1823, presented by Charles Dickens to his Latin tutor Richard Shiers (mentioned in a book titled 'The Life of Charles Dickens', p45).

Album of watercolours by mysterious but talented Indian artist takes £90,000 at Scottish saleroom

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Almanacs became hugely popular as printing made them widely accessible

Tintin creator Hergé (1907-33) must have taken a shine to a Mr TL Ward, judging by a lot sold at an East Yorkshire auction.

Heritage Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) in Dallas broke the record again for what it terms “the most valuable original work of comic book or fantasy art” during its four-day Comics & Comic Art sale held on June 22-25.