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A new exhibition by Designer Bookbinders will showcase some of the finest work by its UK members next month.UNIQUE runs at the Benjamin Spademan Gallery, 14 Masons Yard, London, July 5 through July 13. The exhibition will be free and open to the public. It follows the charity's previous…
Ursula K Le Guin’s family have donated her Portland, Oregon home to local community nonprofit Literary Arts who will transform it into a writers residency.
Swann Galleries' Illustration Art sale on June 20 will showcase a selection of original artworks including a section of cartoon and comic art collected by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and author Jules Feiffer.
Highlights from Lyon and Turnbull's June 18 - 28 The Zoo by Underground: A Private Collection of Rare London Underground Posters auction include: * John Edgar Platt (1886-1967), For the Zoo, Lithographic poster, 1922* Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly (1897-1971), Zoo, Common & Spiny Lobster,…
Christie's' Manuscript Masterpieces from the Schøyen Collection sale began this afternoon from 2pm BST. The Crosby-Schøyen Codex, the oldest known book in private hands and one of the earliest books in existence sold for £3,065,000.
The Grolier Club has announced its Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 exhibition details which include one hundred years of Billy Budd, Lincoln's life in print, a look at imaginary books, a tribute to Mark Twain, a focus on visual and experimental poetry post-1960s, and a history of the development of New…
The first part of The Roger Hill Collection of key works of original comic art and ephemera will go under the hammer later this month at Heritage Auctions in its June 20-23 Comics & Comic Art auction. The collection, which includes artwork from titles that pre-date the Comics…
Goldin’s Pop Culture Elite Auction features a lineup of more than 80 comics, marking the first appearances of several iconic figures.Highlights include: * 1974 Incredible Hulk #181 which marks the first full appearance of Wolverine, with the Herb Trimpe cover on the issue portraying the "…
At Christie's London on Tuesday, June 11, 61 lots of Manuscript Masterpieces from the Schøyen Collection, including the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, the earliest known book in private hands, a papyrus codex (mid-third- to fourth-century) which seems to have served as an Easter lectionary.
Christine Keeler was 21 when she was thrust into the limelight, becoming a household name as the woman at the heart of the 1960s Profumo scandal that nearly brought down the British government.
