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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 Marauder's Map used by Daniel Radcliffe in the Harry Potter movies goes under the hammer next month at Propstore’s Entertainment Memorabilia November 14-17 auction.
Rebecca Lawrence has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of the British Library and will take up the role from January 2025, succeeding Sir Roly Keating who has led the Library since 2012.
Bonhams' Elegance of the Eternal: The Collection of Anne Rice online auction offers a glimpse into the home and personal library of the author of the Vampire Chronicles series.
Peter Harrington is marking its debut at Abu Dhabi Art 2024 with a rare carbon typescript of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince, featuring extensive handwritten corrections by the author throughout, as well as covers showing evidence of his stubbed-out cig
The Bodleian Libraries in Oxford have announced the discovery of previously unknown engravings on the reverse of a series of copper plates, thought to be the earliest engravings by the poet and artist William Blake.
The Sydney Rare Book Fair runs October 24 - 26, concluding this year's Sydney Rare Book Week.Organized by The Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers with the support of the University of Sydney, it returns to MacLaurin Hall, at the university in Camperdown.
The Jackie Kay archive runs to 34 boxes of material that offers a unique insight into Kay’s life and writing and a record of her personal journey including personal letters, manuscripts of poems, novels, short stories, plays, diaries and press articles, as well as schoolbooks and university writing…
Swann Galleries' Fine Books sale on October 24 includes three original letters written by Louisa May Alcott to a friend of her deceased youngest sister May, as well as the final tranche of material from the collection of bibliophile and collector Ken Rapoport.
Chiswick Auctions sells 296 lots of Photographica on Wednesday, October 23, including the deluxe "Museum Edition" of 21st: The Journal of Contemporary Photography (1998–2004), expected to sell for £5,000–7,000. A copy of the deluxe edition of MacLean Gander's poem The New City, with photographs by…
This week's Rare Book of the Week comes from The Age of Exploration, the third and final catalogue from the David Parsons collection, recently launched as a joint offering by Peter Harrington, the New Haven-based William Reese Company and
