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A complete set of 1968 Topps baseball cards leads the October 4 - 6 sale at Heritage Auctions, a 598-card collection with 517 of its cards graded Gem Mint 10 and the remaining 81 Mint 9s.The ’68 Topps set features the highly popular Nolan Ryan rookie card, as well as Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron,…
Notebooks belonging to Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding and letters to his Lord of the Flies editor are to go on show at a new exhibition to mark 70 years since the novel was published.
In a new entry in our Compelling Collections series, we profile the Library of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in an interview with its director Cassidy Lent:What is the mission of your library?
Manuscripts, letters, diaries, photographs, and sketchbooks will be centrestage in a new exhibition which will celebrate the women who featured in the life of Sigmund Freud.
Missing memorials to famous writers and artists are the focus of a campaign by English Heritage which aims to track down long lost Blue Plaques.
University Archives' September 18 Rare Signed Autographs, Manuscripts, Books & Memorabilia auction will also feature items consigned by the Manuscript Society from the estate of manuscript dealers and rare book scholars Forest G. & Forest H. Sweet and Julia Sweet Newman. Proceeds from the…
Page proofs of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book and Wilkie Collins' travelling desk are among a remarkable donation of literary texts and artifacts heading to Cambridge University Library as part of the UK Government’s Acceptance in Lieu scheme.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Vera Jiā Xī Mancini, who recently won third prize in the David Ruggles Book Collecting Prize for young people of color.Where are you from / where do you live?
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Becoming Bohemia: Greenwich Village, 1912–1923 at the NYPL will focus on the extraordinary rise and fall of the first large-scale countercultural enclave in the United States.Highlights from the exhibition which opens October 12 and runs through February 1, 2025, will include:
The CEO of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Tim Cooke, has announced that he will step down from the role in November after serving almost seven years.
