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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released Mutiny on the Bounty in 1962, its take on the events surrounding the historic events of 1789 when unhappy crewmen took over control of HMS Bounty while sailing through the South Pacific.
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Freeman’s | Hindman will bring a unique piece of American and French history to the auction block in September for its Books and Manuscripts auction in Philadelphia.
Scripts from the personal library of the late American director-producer Stanley Kramer will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions on July 25-26.Kramer concentrated on tackling subjects with important social and political messages, earning 85 Academy Award nominations and 15 wins over 35 movies…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Sam Butler, General Manager of Hermitage Books in Denver, Colorado.
More than a dozen letters and cards from Diana Princess of Wales to her family’s former housekeeper come to auction in Essex, England, this summer. Sworders’ Out of the Ordinary sale in Stansted Mountfitchet on July 30 includes a trove of correspondence between the princess and the lady she knew…
The 2024 iteration of PulpFest - the annual celebration of the fiction periodicals named after the cheap pulp paper on which they were printed - runs August 1-4 at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Pittsburgh.
A rare first edition 1688 copy of Aphra Behn’s novel Oroonoko has gone on display at The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge in Canterbury, England.The book has been added to the museum’s current summer exhibition which is celebrating the life and work of locally-born Aphra Behn, the first…
To celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of writer, activist, public intellectual, and beloved library patron James Baldwin (August 2), the New York Public Library has put together a collection of the most important and extraordinary items from its holdings of Baldwin's papers.
Montblanc's latest annual writing instrument collection celebrates Jane Austen who joins Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, and the Brothers Grimm in its Writers Edition range.
