Pages & Proofs

The announcement of Margaret Thatcher’s death at the age of 87 has sparked a flurry of sales. Yesterday, AbeBooks sold 21 books associated with the former prime minister priced £100 or more. Collectors interested in her writing will veer towards her signed books, which are plentiful at the moment. The former Conservative leader signed a [...]

Earlier this month, AbeBooks sold a remarkable cocktail book – Giggle Water Including Eleven Famous Cocktails of The Most Exclusive Club in New York by Charles D Warnock for £1,200. It’s an ultra-rare self-published cocktail recipe book from 1928. The cocktails described are the The Bronx, The Astor, The Bacardi, The Clover, The Dry Martini, The [...]

There has been a strange meeting (in my mind anyway) in the world of books, involving Oscar Wilde and Katie Price. Last month’s list of the most expensive sales on AbeBooks was led by a signed copy of The Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde. Around the same time as we were compiling that list, the [...]

May’s most expensive sales on AbeBooks included a signed first edition of Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak for £16,200 ($25,000). Sendak’s death in May sparked a great deal of interest in his books, both rare and ordinary. The price is a record for any Sendak book on AbeBooks and is certainly one [...]