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Two original watercolour illustrations for Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book long thought lost have…
The Raab Collection has discovered and will offer for sale for Presidents’ Day a mysterious relic…
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Christmas celebrations are already underway at the Charles Dickens Museum in London which is the home in which Dickens himself and his family celebrated yuletide.Over the festive period an extension of the current Showtime! exhibition will be on view in Dickens’s study, exploring Dickens’s…
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A scarce copy of Beatrix Potter’s The Fairy Caravan leads Tennants’ Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on December 11.
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Bonhams' upcoming Spencer Tracy: Collection of a Screen Icon sale will feature literary items from the personal collection of Hollywood actor Spencer Tracy.
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Piles de romans parisiens et roses dans une verre (Romans parisiens) has been sold at Sotheby's for $62.7m which is the second highest price for a still life by the artist.It appeared at the auction of The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection and had an estimate in the…
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The highest-ever-graded copy of Superman No. 1 from 1939 which was found by a Northern California family in the attic of their late mother's home now holds the record as the world's most expensive comic book.It sold for $9.12m at Heritage Auction's Comic Books auction."What a momentous day," said…
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A new exhibition opening next month at The Grolier Club will mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen.
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Opening November 28 at The New York Historical is a new exhibition exploring themes of memory, identity, and community.Stirring the Melting Pot: Photographs from The New York Historical Collections examines the immigrant experience in New York City through March 29, 2026.
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William Blake's The Tyger comes from his rare first issue of Songs of Experience and will be offered at Christie's next month as a single, unbound work, the only impression from the earliest colour printed edition that is in private hands. 
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The latest Freeman’s Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts auction featured selections from Richard Flaherty’s Shakespeare library, including a previously unrecorded copy of the rare Third Folio which was the hightest selling lot at $121,150, more than triple its low estimate.
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The Bonhams Deeds Not Words: A Women's Suffrage Collection online auction running November 10 – 20 features a single owner collection of rare suffragette memorabilia.The sale includes letters, photographs, memorabilia, postcards, books, and hunger strike medals that all tell the story of the women…