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New York-based rare book antiquarian Richard C. Ramer (1942-2026) has died after running his…
Sotheby’s in New York has sold the rare Rothschild Vienna Mahzor Hebrew prayerbook for $6…
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The Institute of English Studies in London is offering an insight into book collecting prizes tomorrow with its latest seminar Shelf Improvement: How to Collect and Present a Prize-Worthy Book Collection.
The earliest known check drawn from Apple’s original bank account has sold for $2,409,886 at RR Auction's Steve Jobs & the Computer Revolution: The Apple 50th Anniversary Auction.Dated March 16, 1976, the Wells Fargo check marked 'No. 1' was written to printed circuit board designer Howard…
Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac will explore the writer’s personal life from childhood to his death through more than 60 items from the collection of Grolier Club member Jacob Loewentheil.
After its cancellation last year following the Los Angeles fires, the California International Antiquarian Book Fair returns next month.
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Highlights of Potter & Potter Auctions' Fine Books and Manuscripts online sale today featuring various letters by Ernest Hemingway include:* Typed signed letter to his friend, screenwriter for The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea and novelist, Peter Viertel. Finca Vicia, San Francisco…
Freeman’s will begin its yearlong celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States tomorrow with its 153-lot Printed and Manuscript Americana auction spanning key moments in American history from the Revolutionary era to the 21st century.
An archive of Louisa May Alcott material acquired by the Concord Free Public Library includes letters from the author to publisher Thomas Niles about the illustrations in the first edition of Little Women.
The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archive of film star Olivia de Havilland.
Sotheby’s' Visions of America auction series this month is led by its Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana sale which brings together autograph letters, manuscripts, and printed works tracing the American story from the Revolutionary era through the Civil War and into the 20th…
