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At Heritage Auctions' part 1 sale of The William A. Strutz Library an inscribed copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was sold for $425,000, a presentation copy of J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit went for $300,000, and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; or Life in…
The Vatican Library has announced that it will begin awarding nontransferable NFTs (nonfungible tokens) to supporters of its manuscript collections.The project in collaboration with Japanese IT services provider NTT DATA is currently only available to Italian donors to the library which holds…
A rare copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio which was sold by London rare book dealer Peter Harrington last year has debuted at its new home as one of the highlights of the new Namedropping exhibition at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart, Tasmania.
Doyle's auction of the Collection of Stephen Sondheim included a wide range of items from the composer and lyricist's Manhattan townhouse and country home in Roxbury, Connecticut, including various reference works.
Thomas Taylor's original watercolour illustration for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone has sold for $1.9 million at Sotheby’s to become the most valuable Harry Potter item ever sold at auction. The illustration was chased by four bidders on the phone and online for nearly 10 minutes…
A poster by brothers Vladimir & Georgij Stenberg advertising the 1929 silent movie Man with the Movie Camera will go under the hammer on July 4 at Kiefer's Alte Drucke, Handschriften und Theologie auction.The Stenbergs were avant-garde Russian artists and designers who also produced posters for…
Freeman’s | Hindman's first Western Manuscripts and Miniatures sale in Chicago on June 27 will present illuminated leaves and Books of Hours from the 13th to the 15th centuries, and showcase more than 70 lots with an estimated total value of $400,000.Gretchen Hause, Senior Vice President and…
Ruth Nelkin of Stamford, Connecticut and New York City was a collector of iconic Japanese prints, around 250 of which will go under the hammer tomorrow at Heritage Auctions featuring works by masters of the form including Katsushika Hokusai, Takahashi Hiroaki, and Yoshida Hiroshi.
Charismatic young actor Vivian MacKerrell was one of the inspirations for the eponymous central character in Withnail and I, writer-director Bruce Robinson’s 1987 cult classic. His never previously released diaries which feature vivid first-hand accounts of moments immortalised on screen including…
Going under the hammer at Sotheby’s New York's Fine Books and Manuscripts sale on June 26 are three major lots focusing on Robert Frost, A. E. Housman, and William Blake.
