Slow Auction
For many reasons books, manuscripts, maps and ephemera get sold. In the collectible field we tend to think of single items but there are reasons for selling larger quantities too. It can be someone who is narrowing his or her focus or a dealer preparing to retire. For collectors it’s the material personally appreciated but outside the current collecting scope or already passed over as other items have been sold or been consigned, in other words; the residue. For material in all these categories and, inevitably others I simply haven’t thought of, there comes a time when the need to dispo...