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On Wednesday, July 24 at Dominic Winter Auctioneers, 498 lots lots of Printed Books, Maps & Caricatures, including a private collection of angling books and a number of lots related to Lord Nelson.
From Napoleon’s library in exile at St. Helena to sale at Heritage Auctions on July 25 comes Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney’s two-volume third edition of Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte pendant les années 1783, 1784, et 1785, first published in 1787 and still in print today. This…
Highlights from Bonham's Books and Manuscripts Summer Sale auction ending from July 25, with a collection of artists books and literature sold to benefit the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, include:* A double-page illustration from Richard Scarry's 1972 Nicky Goes to the…
Works by Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, and F Scott Fitzgerald were among the headliners of the five books and manuscripts auctions across three salerooms as part of Freeman’s | Hindman book month in June.
A Captain America Comics #1 is expected to be the star of the Hake's July 30 and 31 pop culture memorabilia online auction.
Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present Bohemian Club Books & Ephemera on August 10 featuring more than 200 lots of books, booklets, posters, flyers, programs, playbills, invitations, wine lists and menus, and reports from the private men’s club based in San Francisco and Northern…
On view in the Grolier Club’s second floor gallery from September 12 through November 9, Melville’s Billy Budd at 100 highlights the work left unfinished on Melville’s desk at his death in 1891 and posthumously published in 1924.
Collectors of Australiana at the Melbourne Book Fair next week will be offered significant first editions of historical works, including eyewitness accounts featuring finely detailed and hand-coloured maps, journey logs, and surveys from the First Fleet era from Peter Harrington. The fair,…
In this guest post for Fine Books, Umberto La Rocca writes about setting up The McCarthyist, a new website about Cormac McCarthy and his work
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Lise-Michelle Childers of Native Books in Hawaiʻi.How did you get started in rare books?
