THE WEEK THAT WAS at the Auctions by Hammer Price is a new feature of the Rare Book Hub Monthly. In addition to our weekly auction statistics and links which many of you already receive as part of your subscription or as a free weekly Sunday email, this is a new free supplementary Wednesday commentary that picks out some of the highlights of the week just concluded.

 

We have been experimenting with this feature and once you start to see them, we urge you to send feedback, requests, comments and suggestions for what will make this free service more useful to you. This is a work in progress, and is still evolving.

 

Likewise, please note that we have added multiple "categories" to our Sunday search criteria to help you find specific kinds of auction results more rapidly. Like the new Wednesday highlights summary, "categories" is also a work in progress and your feedback and comments in this area are also welcome.

 

Though Rare Book Hub’s primary interest continues to be paper based rare books, maps, prints, photography, ephemera, manuscripts, autographs and historical documents associated with traditional collecting and the book trade, our net is wide.

 

We also receive weekly auction results for sports cards and sports memorabilia, comic books, animation, trading cards, art including illustration and posters, as well coins and currency, stamps and other categories. While we will be including occasional results from these areas, especially when the price is extremely high, our main focus continues to be following and reporting on the many facets of the traditional antiquarian paper trade.

 

A reminder to our subscribers: You must log on to our site for some of the links to individual RBH fact sheets to function.

 

For those of you who browse RBH Monthly (a free public feature of RareBookHub.com) if you don’t already receive our weekly free auction statistical report and related links that comes out every Sunday on you can sign up for it here. (Click the column at the far left hand side of the page under the header FREE)

 

You do not need to be a paid subscriber to receive either the Sunday full auction report or the new Wednesday highlights.

 

We hope you will find both the Sunday and Wednesday free informational auction reports useful and relevant, and will do your part to make them better by sending comments and suggestions to auctionnews2025@gmail.com

 

Thank you.