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The long-standing friendship between poet Langston Hughes and pioneer photographer Griffith J. Davis is at the centre of the new exhibition The Ways of Langston Hughes: Griff Davis and Black Artists in the Making at the Schomburg Center, a research division of The New York Public Library.
The National Library of Ireland has announced the acquisition of The O’Brien Press Collection and its archive which includes first edition titles from Marita Conlon-McKenna, Éamonn McThomáis, Eoin Colfer, Siobhán Parkinson, Polly Devlin, Frank McGuinness and William Trevor.
The Raab Collection has announced that it has acquired the original autopsy report and unpublished medical notes from the assassination of President William McKinley belonging to Dr. Herman Matzinger, who conducted McKinley’s autopsy.
An extraordinary selection of rarities from one of the world’s most highly regarded single-author collections, the Winston S. Churchill Collection of Steve Forbes, is on sale at The Winter Show 2024, taking place at The Armoury New York.Offered by London-based rare book dealer Peter Harrington, the…
![STAMP ACT CRISIS [THE SONS OF LIBERTY – LAMB, John (?) (1735 ‐1800).] Autograph document signed (“Vox Populi”), [New York, October 23‐24 , 1765]. One page, 156 x 192mm., on laid paper. Estimate: $4,000,000-6,000,000](https://cdn.finebooksmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/mobile_listed_teaser_thumb_768x735_/public/media-images/2024-01/christies-stamp-act-placard-january-24.jpg?h=5f8dda7f&itok=13Z3RDJ6)
The top lot of the Christie’s Fine Printed and Manuscript Americana sale, The Stamp Act Defiance Placard, has been sold for $4,527,000.
Bibliophiles, literary enthusiasts, and scholars are gearing up for the much-anticipated Bibliography Week 2024, a week-long celebration of literary heritage, scheduled to take place this year January 22 - 27.
The top lot of Christie’s' Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts including Americana online auction features Andreas Vesalius’s own heavily annotated copy of the second edition of his groundbreaking anatomical atlas De humani corporis fabrica.
One of only two copies of The Amazing Spider-Man No. 1 graded CGC Near Mint/Mint 9.8 has realized a record-setting $1,380,000 at Heritage Auctions’ Comics & Comic Art sale.The book, which appeared on newsstands in March 1963 seven months after Peter Parker and his alter-ego debuted in Amazing…
Costumes and props from HBO's Succession television series made a total of $627,825 at Heritage Auction's dedicated auction, led by Roman Roy’s eulogy that went undelivered at his father Logan’s funeral in the series’ penultimate episode, Church and State.The eulogy was written across three pink…
A private collection comprising the signatures of every one of Britain’s Prime Ministers comes for sale at Chiswick Auctions in February. The assemblage of documents, letters, clipped signatures and photographs is expected to bring £9,000-£12,000 as part of a designated timed online sale of…
