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The Library of Congress has acquired the complete collection of music manuscripts of jazz…
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A scarce astronomy treatise, written by a Welshman before Galileo was born, has been sold to a private international buyer after an intense bidding war.The first edition of The Castle of Knowledge by Robert Recorde (first edition, London: Reginalde Wolfe, 1556) was discovered among a box of…
Relics from the collection of sleight-of-hand magician, actor, and author, Ricky Jay went for nearly $518,000 at Potter & Potter's Ricky Jay Collection Part II Sale.
A new study using a large-scale data set of U.S. library book circulations evaluated the impact of book bans on demand for banned books. It found that circulations of books rose after being banned, banning a book in one state leads to increases in circulation of that book in states that did not ban…
After seven years and thanks to a team of international specialists, the Florentine Codex, the most important manuscript surviving from early colonial Mexico and rich in pre-colonial Indigenous knowledge, is now available to explore online with new translations and features.
Potter & Potter's auction Lewis Carroll and Alice: The Collection of Stephen and Nancy Farber focuses on a collection put together over four decades of books, illustrations, sketches, posters, posters, and art related to Lewis Carroll's books and characters.
A fragment of John Steinbeck’s original handwritten draft of Of Mice and Men, which was eaten/destroyed by his dog Toby in 1936, has sold for $13,000, more than six times its estimate. In the same Bonhams auction, Steinbeck's wrought-iron sword which he presented to his sister Mary…
Organisers of a new exhibition to open next month at the Charles Dickens Museum are hunting for novelist Wilkie Collins' honest appraisal of his friend Charles Dickens' novels.Mutual Friends: The Adventures of Charles Dickens & Wilkie Collins opens next month at the museum, Dickens' former home…
Printed Matter has announced its Sunday Zine Fair, a special day-long event held on November 19 on the occasion of the Brooklyn Museum’s expansive survey exhibition on artists’ zines Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines. The Fair will convene more than 60 exhibitors in the…
Incline Press has launched Gifts of the Magi, a collection of new poems by Jamie McKendrick. Winner of numerous national and international writing prizes, this is their second collaboration (following the tri-lingual chapbook, The Hunters, in 2015) as they hope to mark the approaching season…
A never-before-seen photo of soldiers leaving Northern Ireland to fight in World War One and a serviceman’s diary from the trenches will go under the hammer at Hansons Auctioneers’ WW1 Auction on November 7.
