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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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Getman’s Virtual Book Fairs has joined with viaLibri, the world’s largest marketplace for old, rare and, second-hand books, further expanding its reach of more than 160 independent and multi-seller websites worldwide.
An archive of very personal correspondence relating to the English writer Penelope Bennett (b.1932) comes for sale in London late this month. The cache of close to 400 letters and cards written in the early 1960s was discovered by the seller at an open-air antiques fair last year and has never…
Works from Tintin, Moebius, and Belgian creator André Franquin's Gaston Lagaffe will appear at Heritage Auctions' original art auction next month.
The Raab Collection has acquired and is offering for sale an original document signed by President Abraham Lincoln just four days before his assassination, among his final acts as President. The document was discovered in an antique desk, where it had been kept by the family of the previous…
More than 1,000 white diamonds have been set into the custom fine binding of a first edition of Breakfast at Tiffany’s signed by Truman Capote which has been produced to celebrate the centenary of his birth.
Through photographs from a 1946 survey, the National Archives is highlighting the diverse lives of coal miners and their families in Power & Light: Russell Lee's Coal Survey, a new exhibit opening on March 16 which shares more than 200 photographs of renowned documentary photographer…
The Bodleian Libraries' new Write, Cut, Rewrite exhibition will shed light on the creative importance of revision in literature. Often referred to as ‘killing your darlings’, Write, Cut, Rewrite delves into the editing, cutting and creative undoing of some of the world's most celebrated authors,…
The Manhattan Rare Book and Fine Press Fair is back for one day only - April 6 - inviting booksellers and bibliophiles from around the world to share their love of antiquarian books, fine press, ephemera, and historic photography. It will be held in the auditorium of the Church of St. Vincent…
One of the standout items in RR Auction's February Remarkable Rarities sale is a historic 'Little Red Book' signed by Mao Zedong during a momentous 1966 visit by Pakistan's Foreign Minister.
The only known letter between poet Lord Byron and the ‘Father of Reform’ politician Major John Cartwright found in a country house in England, and a letter brought in for a routine valuation from Jean Jacques Rousseau will go under the hammer at Chorley’s this spring.The letter by 18th century…
