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A century after Sir James Roberts gifted Haworth Parsonage to the Brontë Society it has announced…
Of the 138 lots covering the history of science at PBA Galleries' August 28 auction are 18 related…
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The volume’s first owner, French physician and bibliophile Dr. Ludovic Bouland (1839–1933), bound the book with skin he took without consent from the body of a deceased female patient in a hospital where he worked. The book has been in the collections of Harvard Library since 1934, initially…
Remember Me: American Carved Stone Books from the Ian Berke Collection will explore the area where book-like objects and folk art intersect. San Francisco collector Ian Berke (1940 - 2024) began collecting these intriguing artifacts during a chance encounter at an antique show in New England…
Heroes: The British invasion of American comics opens at the Cartoon Museum in London next month with a look at how British artists and writers invaded America and made their mark on iconic superheroes.
Nearly 900 lots are featured in RR Auction's upcoming Apil Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale, featuring nearly 900 lots of items from the 19th and 20th centuries.Highlights include two Abraham Lincoln items. The first is a rare Lincoln check dated February 16, 1859, payable to Johnson &…
Sarah Gordon’s new play Underdog: The Other Other Brontë is an irreverent retelling of the lives and legend of English literature’s famed Brontë sisters which opens tonight at the National Theatre's Dorfman theatre in London.
The lineup at the famous 1969 Altamont Festival included the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, and Santana, but the act most closely associated with Altamont is the Rolling Stones. The rarest piece of historic memorabilia tied to this moment is the event poster…
Type Punch Matrix will feature more than two dozen items from the life and career of Sylvia Plath at the 64th annual New York Antiquarian Book Fair, April 4 - 7 at the Park Avenue Armory.
At the Mountains of Madness, written on the back of letters and other paraphenalia by H. P. Lovecraft, has been reproduced for the first time by SP Books. The manuscript also reveals how H.P. Lovecraft was seen among his friends, including their nicknames for him, and includes typed letters…
A rare and perfectly graded Steve Jobs-signed Apple Computer business card from circa 1983 has fetched $181,183 at RR Auction who believe it to be a world record price achieved for a signed business card.
A rare first edition and author’s presentation copy of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species from 1859 has sold for £305,200, over double its estimate, at Bonhams.
