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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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A rare handwritten manuscript leaf from Henry David Thoreau's Walden will go under the hammer at RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction featuring over 650 items.
The Yiddish Book Center has announced that Aaron Lansky, the organization’s founder and MacArthur Foundation 'Genius Grant' winner, will retire from his role as president in June 2025. Susan Bronson, the Center’s long-time executive director, will assume the position of president. Following…
Submissions for the eighth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, a cash award of $1000 for an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a young woman, are now open.
Neil Gaiman, creator of Sandman and best-selling author of American Gods, Good Omens and Coraline will auction some of his prized pieces at Heritage Auctions' March 14 sale at which Gaiman will be in attendance.
Finnish author Tove Jansson is best known as the woman behind the Moomins universe but Bruun Rasmussen’s March 4 auction presents a colorful still-life by her from 1939.Estimated at DKK 350,000-400,000 ($51,000 - $58,000), the painting features a vase decorated with stylised grapes, and crisp,…
A letter from 1793 signed by both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson brought $21,780, a first edition of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) sold for $22,990, and a first edition, three-volume set of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations realized $16,940 in three days of sales held by…
An intriguing copy of Karl Marx's work Das Kapital is returning to Down House in Kent, home of Charles Darwin, following specialist conservation work by Cambridge University Library.As the charity that cares for Down House, English Heritage is putting the book on public display for the first time…
The National Library of Scotland has bought the last and final tranche of archive material by author, artist and playwright, Alasdair Gray.
A new Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition and book will explore late 19th century American literary posters, a vibrant genre at the vanguard of modern commercial art and graphic design.The Art of the Literary Poster by Allison Rudnick will be published next month in association with the museum’s…
The Autographs sale next month at Swann Galleries will contain property from the Forbes Collection, reflecting a keen interest in American history, world leaders, American entertainers between the 1930s and 1960s, and writers.
