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The Raab Collection has discovered and will offer for sale for Presidents’ Day a mysterious relic…
Charles Ardai, editor of Hard Case Crime,spoke with us over email about the three volumes of Joyce…
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The Newberry Library has received a $4m grant from the Mellon Foundation which will fund a five-year project aiming to transform how Indigenous histories are preserved, accessed, and represented, and strengthen collaboration with tribal nations. The Newberry holds one of the largest print…
Highlights of PBA Galleries' February 5 auction from the Klaus Werner Collection with an emphasis on 18th and 19th century voyages across the Pacific Ocean include:* Voyage Autour du Monde sur la Frégate La Vénus, Pendant les Années 1836-1839 by Abel Aubert Du Petit-Thouars
The top lot of Freeman's' latest auction was a manuscript document signed by John Hancock, The Seed of American Victory Over Great Britain: The Continental Congress Appoints the American Envoy to France, which sold for $563,200, following a pre-sale estimate of $150,000–250,000.
An album featuring the Rolling Stones, Beatles, and George Harrison's broken guitar string has been sold at Richard Winterton Auctioneers for £7,000.The signatures were obtained by Portsmouth teenager Elizabeth Salt (Liz McBrierty, as she was then) who met John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George…
The Brooklyn Museum has unveiled a rare 21ft complete and gilded Book of the Dead, the finest surviving example of its kind.Presented to the public for the first time following a three-year conservation project, the papyrus anchors a newly refreshed funerary installation Unrolling Eternity in…
The Institute of English Studies in London is offering an insight into book collecting prizes tomorrow with its latest seminar Shelf Improvement: How to Collect and Present a Prize-Worthy Book Collection.
The earliest known check drawn from Apple’s original bank account has sold for $2,409,886 at RR Auction's Steve Jobs & the Computer Revolution: The Apple 50th Anniversary Auction.Dated March 16, 1976, the Wells Fargo check marked 'No. 1' was written to printed circuit board designer Howard…
Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac will explore the writer’s personal life from childhood to his death through more than 60 items from the collection of Grolier Club member Jacob Loewentheil.
After its cancellation last year following the Los Angeles fires, the California International Antiquarian Book Fair returns next month.
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
