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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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The Library of Congress has released some 230 newly digitized manuscripts written in Hebrew and similar languages such as Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian and Yiddish. The collection, available online for researchers and the public for the first time, includes a 14th century collection of responsa by…
Potter & Potter's Late Summer Magicana Auction realized nearly $425,000 with a 99% sell through rate. Sale highlights included Thurston the World’s Greatest Magician. The Lady and the Lion. Estimated at $10,000-15,000 and eventually making $43,200, this one-sheet poster depicted three illusions…
The manuscript of Tikune Shabat (prayers and devotions for the Sabbath) sold for a hammer price of £57,000 at Hansons Auctioneers (Sept 5) after an intense international bidding battle. It had been guided at £5,000-£10,000.
The 10-part series – a joint original feature production for fall 2023 from C-SPAN and the Library of Congress - will trace America's history by exploring masterpieces in literature that have had, and still have today, a major impact on society. The series which C-SPAN will air LIVE on Mondays…
In September 1773, Phillis Wheatley published Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral in London, becoming the first African American writer to publish a book of poetry, and only the third colonial American woman of any race to publish a book.
Mort Meskin's original cover for 1941's Leading Comics No. 1, featuring the Seven Soldiers of Victory, and Fred Ray and Jerry Robinson's cover for Batman and Robin's Detective Comics No. 58 (inside which The Penguin waddled his first steps) lead Heritage Auctions' September 14-17 Comics & Comic…
A rare volume marking the start of the Harry Potter phenomenon has been found in an Oxfordshire village primary school which bought it for £1 in 1997.
Potter & Potter Auctions' sale of The Collection of Robin and Kathryn Smiley, the co-publishers and editors of Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine, smashed presale estimates to realize $516,000.First or unusual editions of the world's most recognized 19th century books took several of the top…
A lost letter written by lexicographer Samuel Johnson and officially logged as ‘present location unknown’ for many years has been found on a routine valuation by Chorley’s.The letter - published in The Letters of Samuel Johnson (Oxford, 1994; Bruce Bedford, ed.) - was tucked away with…
In honor of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s First Folio of 1623, Princeton University Library (PUL) will present In the Company of Good Books: From Shakespeare to Morrison in its Milberg Gallery.
