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Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair returns to the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea from May 14 through May…
Opening this summer at The Huntington will be its new exhibition This Land Is... which will focus…
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Freeman’s | Hindman will bring a unique piece of American and French history to the auction block in September for its Books and Manuscripts auction in Philadelphia.
Scripts from the personal library of the late American director-producer Stanley Kramer will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions on July 25-26.Kramer concentrated on tackling subjects with important social and political messages, earning 85 Academy Award nominations and 15 wins over 35 movies…
More than a dozen letters and cards from Diana Princess of Wales to her family’s former housekeeper come to auction in Essex, England, this summer. Sworders’ Out of the Ordinary sale in Stansted Mountfitchet on July 30 includes a trove of correspondence between the princess and the lady she knew…
A rare first edition 1688 copy of Aphra Behn’s novel Oroonoko has gone on display at The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge in Canterbury, England.The book has been added to the museum’s current summer exhibition which is celebrating the life and work of locally-born Aphra Behn, the first…
To celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of writer, activist, public intellectual, and beloved library patron James Baldwin (August 2), the New York Public Library has put together a collection of the most important and extraordinary items from its holdings of Baldwin's papers.
Montblanc's latest annual writing instrument collection celebrates Jane Austen who joins Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, and the Brothers Grimm in its Writers Edition range.
Works by Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, and F Scott Fitzgerald were among the headliners of the five books and manuscripts auctions across three salerooms as part of Freeman’s | Hindman book month in June.
A Captain America Comics #1 is expected to be the star of the Hake's July 30 and 31 pop culture memorabilia online auction.
Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present Bohemian Club Books & Ephemera on August 10 featuring more than 200 lots of books, booklets, posters, flyers, programs, playbills, invitations, wine lists and menus, and reports from the private men’s club based in San Francisco and Northern…
On view in the Grolier Club’s second floor gallery from September 12 through November 9, Melville’s Billy Budd at 100 highlights the work left unfinished on Melville’s desk at his death in 1891 and posthumously published in 1924.
