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The Library of Congress has acquired rare music and lyric sketches from composer Harold Arlen and…
The New York Public Library has announced plans to commemorate the semiquincentennial of the…
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On view at the Getty Center in Los Angeles through April 28, 2024 is Drawing on Blue: European Drawings on Blue Paper, 1400s–1700s, an exhibition that dives into the history of blue paper, from its earliest use in Renaissance Italy to Enlightenment France and beyond.
Goldin's latest Pop Culture Elite Auction features some of the most sought-after Pokémon Cards, rare comic books and original, vintage video games.Leading the sale are a 1939 Superman #1 and a 1962 Amazing Fantasy #15, featuring Spiderman’s first appearance. Other highlights include:
Highlights from Freeman’s | Hindman’s February 6 Books and Manuscripts sale includes:* A seven-volume set of The Works of Aeschylus from the personal library of Thomas Jefferson
Lyon & Turnbull's February 7 Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs sale features items covering 200 years of one of Scotland's best-known families.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Auroura Morgan, winner of the 2023 Honey & Wax Book Collecting prize for female collectors aged 30 and younger.Where are you from / where do you live?
A new exhibition at The Wolfsonian–Florida International University showcases the museum’s exceptional holdings of rare books from the Harlem Renaissance.
In an initiative championed by Her Majesty The Queen, 20 tiny manuscripts have been penned and decorated by hand by leading writers and illustrators to establish a modern-day miniature library for one of the largest and most famous dolls’ houses in the world.
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America's Diversity Initiative Committee has announced a paid summer internship program co-sponsored by AbeBooks.
On February 24, Heritage Auctions presents a 'Coming to America' 60th Anniversary Beatles auction that features significant autographs and signatures of the entire band including their last known sign-off on a record contract and an unused ticket to the band’s first U.S.
RR Auction will feature a collection of 600 unique items in its upcoming February Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction which pays homage to Presidents' Day.Notable among them is a one-page John Adams letter from September 24, 1812, written during the War of 1812. Additionally, a rare 1808…
