Paul Mills was recently interviewed on the SAFM Book Show by Nancy Richards. Listen to the interview below.

AntiquarianAuctions.com, the bookseller-run auction house, recently upgraded their website, making it more user-friendly, particularly for use with mobile devices. The upgrade gives us an opportunity to look at this dealer-oriented book auctioneer that has been growing quietly over the years. Antiquarian Auctions has been making the most of trends in the bookselling field - online selling, desire for quicker turning of inventory, visible market pricing, international selling – to quietly raise its profile over the past five years. Their philosophy has been to lead booksellers to newer selling models when ... Read more

Chinua Achebe is considered one of the founders of new Nigerian literature, as well as one of the finest African novelists and most prominent African writers of his generation. Born in Nigeria in 1930, Chinua Achebe attended the University of Ibadan. In 1958, his groundbreaking novel Things Fall Apart was published. It went on to sell more than 12 million copies and has been translated into more than 50 languages. Achebe later served as the David and Marianna Fisher University professor and professor of Africana Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He died on March 21, 2013, at age 82, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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A very good copy of The Haggedah for Passover will be offered for sale on Auction #41 running from 5-12th March 2015. 

This first edition of the Haggadah for Passover, copied and illustrated by Ben Shahn consists of 292 copies each bearing the artist’s signature and cypher on the frontispiece.

Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969), an accomplished lithographer and painter, was a Lithuanian-born American artist. After settling with his family in New York, he was first trained as a lithographer. Shahn's early experiences with lithography and graphic design are apparent in his later prints and paintings ... Read more

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AntiquarianAuctions.com is pleased to launch its upgraded website. For over 5 years, AntiquarianAuctions.com has been running successful online rare book auctions, growing its database and traffic exponentially. The new site is much easier to navigate and uses responsive technology for an optimal and consistent browsing experience across a wide range of devices from desktop computer monitors to ... Read more

The on-line auction site www.antiquarianauctions.com is running Sale Number 40 from today until 4.30 pm (UK Time) on Thursday 29 January. 520 lots are offered covering a wide variety of subjects.

A rarity among the early colour-plate books of Africa is A Collection of Portraits of the Savage Tribes Inhabiting the Boundaries of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. Taken from the Life in 1812, by an Officer of the 21st Dragoons, engaged in an Expedition against those Tribes, under Lt.-Col. Graham. [See images below. Click on image to enlarge.]Published in 1822, three of the eight hand-coloured plates are aquatints and five are lithographs. The last recorded sale at auction is an ... Read more

Auction 38 has started and will run until 16.30 GMT on the 16th of October. 465 lots are being offered covering a wide variety of subjects.

Lot no. 1 is Liuet.-Colonel Sir Harry Darell’s unusual lithographic album of Chinese, Indian and African interest entitled China, India, Cape of Good Hope and Vicinity, a Series of Thirteen Treble-tinted Views from Sketches, published by Day and Son in 1853 (reserve $4000). Other items of travel interest are Matthew Perry’s Narrative of the Expedition of An American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan (1856, reserve $3200) and Burchell’s Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, 2 volumes (1822-1824, reserve ... Read more

This article was taken from Business Day on 29 August 2014.

A rare copy of the first edition of Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell was among books offered at the Antiquarian Books online auction at www.antiquarianauctions.com, which closed yesterday after the time of going to press.

Published in May 1936, the book is one of only 10,000 printed. It was chosen by Book of the Month Club as one of its selections for June 1936 and the book was officially issued in the same month. This is why the May 1936 copies are the rarest and most valued.

Warner Bros. were offered the film right to the book for $70,000. The studio refused, MGM snapped up the ... Read more

A letter that tells an intriguing story of murder, betrayal and sabotage is up for grabs tomorrow when a slice of Eastern Cape history goes under the hammer.

Grahamstown’s Fables Bookshop owner Ian Balchin is auctioning the letter on a rare book website on behalf of family who to remain anonymous.

And foreign and local bidders are lining up to get their hands on other letters that offer a glimpse into the shenanigans of influential figures in colonial South Africa, Balchin says.

Writers of the letters include Sir Rufane Donkin, the acting governor of the Cape Colony from 1820 to 1821, and activist and entrepreneur John Fairbairn, the founding father of ... Read more

This article was taken from the Business Day on 24 May 2013.

The only book by a South African author to be plagiarised by a Nobel laureate, and one written by a British was correspondent who missed out on the greatest scoop in the Anglo-Boer War, will be on offer in an online auction held by Antiquarian Book Auctions, at www.antiquarianauctions.com starting on Thursday next week.

The South of the White Ant, by Eugene Marais, was plagiarised by Belgian Maurice Maeterlinck, who won a Nobel Prize for a similar work in Flemish. On offer is a first edition of the book in English, published by Methuen & Company (London, 1937), which has a reserve price of ... Read more