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Ticket stubs, maps, playbills, postcards, political buttons, forgotten photographs and more will…
Opening next month at the British Library, Fairy Tales will celebrate the iconic heroes, villains…
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Manuscripts, letters, diaries, photographs, and sketchbooks will be centrestage in a new exhibition which will celebrate the women who featured in the life of Sigmund Freud.
Missing memorials to famous writers and artists are the focus of a campaign by English Heritage which aims to track down long lost Blue Plaques.
University Archives' September 18 Rare Signed Autographs, Manuscripts, Books & Memorabilia auction will also feature items consigned by the Manuscript Society from the estate of manuscript dealers and rare book scholars Forest G. & Forest H. Sweet and Julia Sweet Newman. Proceeds from the…
Page proofs of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book and Wilkie Collins' travelling desk are among a remarkable donation of literary texts and artifacts heading to Cambridge University Library as part of the UK Government’s Acceptance in Lieu scheme.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Vera Jiā Xī Mancini, who recently won third prize in the David Ruggles Book Collecting Prize for young people of color.Where are you from / where do you live?
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Becoming Bohemia: Greenwich Village, 1912–1923 at the NYPL will focus on the extraordinary rise and fall of the first large-scale countercultural enclave in the United States.Highlights from the exhibition which opens October 12 and runs through February 1, 2025, will include:
The CEO of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Tim Cooke, has announced that he will step down from the role in November after serving almost seven years.
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) will hold a Virtual Book Fair on September 25-27, with Fine Books & Collections as one of its Cultural Partners.This special online event, part of the celebrations marking its 75th anniversary, will bring together booksellers,…
Taking pride of place at Dominic Winter’s September 11 auction is the third edition of Polydore Vergil’s Anglica Historia, published in 1555, the year of the author’s death, and bound for Queen Mary I.
A copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has sold for £8,340 at auction, 27 years after its owner bought it brand new for just a few pounds.The soft cover, first edition of the boy wizard’s literary debut went under the hammer with Richard Winterton Auctioneers in England earlier today,…
