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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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Highlights of Potter & Potter Auctions' Fine Books and Manuscripts online sale today featuring various letters by Ernest Hemingway include:* Typed signed letter to his friend, screenwriter for The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea and novelist, Peter Viertel. Finca Vicia, San Francisco…
Freeman’s will begin its yearlong celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States tomorrow with its 153-lot Printed and Manuscript Americana auction spanning key moments in American history from the Revolutionary era to the 21st century.
An archive of Louisa May Alcott material acquired by the Concord Free Public Library includes letters from the author to publisher Thomas Niles about the illustrations in the first edition of Little Women.
The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archive of film star Olivia de Havilland.
Sotheby’s' Visions of America auction series this month is led by its Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana sale which brings together autograph letters, manuscripts, and printed works tracing the American story from the Revolutionary era through the Civil War and into the 20th…
This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections advisor specializing in rare books and manuscripts as well as fine photography and prints.
Christie's' We The People: America at 250 auction offering foundational documents of American history in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries more than doubled its estimate to total $35,562,465.The top three lots of the sale were:
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Alexandra E. LaGrand, winner of the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for woman collectors aged 30 and under.Where are you from / where do you live?I am from Cary, North Carolina, but currently live in College Station, Texas.
Highlights from Heritage Auctions' auction include:Ten Years Ago: The Nazis Burned These Books (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943)
Peter Harrington is due to offer a group of original manuscripts and typescripts for Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne which it describes as "the only obtainable manuscript material for any of the Pooh books".
