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Following the success of the movie Deadpool & Wolverine released last month, Heritage Auctions is offering for sale the original artwork Rob Liefeld penciled and inked for the cover of New Mutants No. 98, which introduced Marvel Comics’ Deadpool.This marks the first time in nearly two decades…
Some rare books suddenly find a whole new audience thanks to republication. The British Library's Crime Classics series continues to power onwards, bringing rare titles from the Golden Age of Crime back into circulation.
At Dominic Winter Auctioneers on Wednesday, August 14, 300 lots of Books, Maps, Prints & Pictures, Ephemera & Bookbinding Tools, including a substantial but broken run of The Sporting Magazine in 146 volumes; eleven cartons of what is described as "miscellaneous British topographical…
A rare copy of Timely’s Captain America Comics #1 led Hake’s' latest pop culture memorabilia auction.The CGC-graded 5.5 Fine March 1941 comic book introducing the indomitable World War II character Captain America, his sidekick Bucky Barnes and their Nazi nemesis The Red Skull, was sold for $172,…
The life of women in medieval Europe is the focus of new displays which use manuscripts, documents and other artefacts to focus on their public and private lives through their own writings.Medieval Women: In Their Own Words opens at the British Library in London on October 25 and runs through March…
The rare book world is enjoying a solid return to business as usual, according to a statement from the UK-based Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association (ABA) and the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA) who say that book fairs have recovered their position as the centrepiece of the industry…
The Miniature Book Society will hold their 40th annual Grand Conclave weekend conference August 23-25 culminating in the Sunday Book Fair which will be open to the public.
RR Auction's upcoming Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale running to August 14 features a collection of letters, documents, and manuscripts signed by some of history's most influential thinkers and leaders.
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Lacey Brown, proprietor of Henniker Book Farm and Gifts in New Hampshire:How did you get started in rare books?
A rare example of a letter written in his almost indecipherable shorthand by Charles Dickens has gone on display at the Charles Dickens Museum in London.
