Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Dr. Anne Peale, Chapin Librarian at Williams College in Massachusetts.What is your role at your institution?I’m the Chapin Librarian at Williams College, where I curate our collection of rare books, manuscripts, and other primary sources to…

Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month. Our Best of 2025 selections will be published on December 19.An Extremely Un-Get-Atable Place by Craig Easton

In the first of a two-part post to mark Jane Austen's birthday today, screenwriter Heidi Lux looks at how film-makers have treated the author's most popular work.

Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on through the end of 2025!

Five years ago at the age of 70 when the pandemic forced the cancellation of his many shows, veteran show promoter Marvin Getman championed the concept of virtual book fairs and virtual antiques shows. 

Leading Bonhams’ 'white glove' Spencer Tracy: Collection of a Screen Icon auction was an advance issue presentation copy of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway which soared to more than 55 times its estimate when it sold for $83,050.  

Coinciding with the recent publication of Charlie Mackesy's second book Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm, Bonhams will hold a special auction of new works by the artist.

The second installment of Stories from the Library opens on December 13 when visitors will be able to enjoy rarely seen materials from across The Huntington Library's collections including Octavia E. Butler’s notebooks and the first schoolbook printed in California. 

J.R.R. Tolkien's desk which he used while working at Merton College in Oxford has been sold today for £330,200 at Christie’s after spirited bidding, making more than six times its £50,000 low estimate.The late 19th century roll-top mahogany and satinwood desk is one of only two desks known to have…

The Victor Gulotta Collection of H. G. Wells is one of two major private collections offered at Heritage Auctions' December 15 Rare Books Auction.