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Courtesy of Potter & Potter The Quadrupeds of North America from 1854 is estimated at $3,500-5,000. Chicago — Potter & Potter Auctions is excited to announce its upcoming Fine Books and Manuscripts Sale to be held on Saturday, March 13th, starting at 10am, CDT. Given current regulations, this sale will be streamed live from Potter & Potter's gallery and held on www.potterauctions.com. Bids can be placed on the company's website. Phone and absentee bidding are available as well. All lots are available for preview now on Potter & Potter's website. Courtesy of Potter & Potter Remarkable antiqu...

Last modified on Tue 9 Mar 2021 03.59 EST On 2 January this year, the day after The Great Gatsby Undead was self-published on Amazon. Like F Scott Fitzgerald’s hallowed novel, it is narrated by Nick Carraway, but in this version, according to the promotional blurb, “Gatsby doesn’t seem to eat anything, and has an aversion to silver, garlic, and the sun”. Gatsby, you see, is a vampire. More than 25m copies of The Great Gatsby have been sold since it was first published in 1925, and the expiration of copyright, 95 years after it was released, opens the door to anything and...

John le Carré was no lowbrow writer – he changed the course of English literature   Genre fiction was once disparaged as stuff to read idly on the train. Today’s most innovative fiction owes the late novelist a great deal The man behind the mask: David Cornwell Here’s how John le Carré introduces his most famous creation, George Smiley, in the first chapter of his first novel, Call For The Dead:  When Lady Ann Sercomb married George Smiley towards the end of the war she described him to her astonished Mayfair friends as breathtakingly ordinary. When she left him two years lat...