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A £250,000 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund will ensure access to a unique historic…
The Library of Congress has acquired the complete collection of music manuscripts of jazz…
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The Gordon Lightfoot Estate Collection Music Memorabilia sale held by Heritage Auctions on November 17 will celebrate the legacy of the popular Canadian singer-songwriter who died last year.
Highlights of Potter & Potter Auctions' fall Vintage Poster sale include:Fly to Britain by Clipper / Pan American World AirwaysMark Von Arnburg's 1948 lithograph depicting the Queen’s guard and royal carriage drawn by a team of horses, escorted by soldiers in red, men on horseback with Big Ben…
San Francisco Center for the Book is presenting the first-ever survey of artist and graphic designer David King’s small press publications, zines, ephemera, and early design projects in its new exhibition David King Publications 1977–2019.
A hand-annotated map of the Bay of Pigs invasion signed by Fidel Castro is among the highlights of RR Auction's November Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale which also pays tribute to President John F. Kennedy.
Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on this week:
This week's entry appears in the Fine Books and Manuscripts auction running from this week until November 12 at Bonhams which features an E. H. Shepard presentation copy of When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne.
The recent Bonhams auction Elegance of the Eternal: The Collection of Anne Rice featured more than 200 objects from the home and personal library of the prolific supernatural and Gothic historical fiction writer.
Freeman’s | Hindman’s Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana auction later this month features around 350 lots of works of Americana and Natural History.
The 32nd annual Antiquarian Booksellers' Association's Chelsea Rare Book Fair opens today at Chelsea Old Town Hall on London's King's Road with a selection of rare books, maps, manuscripts, and ephemera from a wide range of 80 international exhibitors. Running today 2pm - 7pm (tickets £10) and…
A public sculpture of the poet John Keats has been unveiled this week close to his birthplace on Moorgate in the City of London on what would have been his 229th birthday.Keats was the son of an ostler at a City inn and livery stable called The Swan and Hoop, which stood a few dozen yards south of…
