A new catalogue from James Cummins Bookseller includes a previously unrecognized draft manuscript by Vita Sackville-West for A Note of Explanation, the miniature book she wrote for Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House at Windsor Castle and which has been cited as an inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.…

Part 1 of the Lawrence Klein collection at Hakes Auctions features a collection of vintage comic books and original comic book art by one of the industry’s most notable collectors and featuring original Todd McFarlane pen-and-ink artwork for Amazing Spider-Man #302 (Marvel Comics, July 1988), and…

Tickets for Hallowe'en and Christmas events at the Charles Dickens Museum in London go on sale on October 1 with one-man performances of Dickens’s stories by James Swanton and Dominic Gerrard.Nancy’s Murder and Other Horrifying Tales performed by Dominic Gerrard (October 28 and 29) focuses on the…

A four-part sale series featuring one of the most significant private collections of cat-related books and art ever assembled begins tomorrow at Bonhams.The Sandy Lerner Collection from American businesswoman and philanthropist Sandy Lerner (b.1955) features …

The first of a two-part single-owner auction Reason and Revolution focusing on the history of scientific thought comes to Sotheby's next month.Featuring first editions from Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, and Isaac Newton including a rare surviving manuscript in Newton's…

Bob Dylan’s handwritten working lyrics for two songs from Blood on the Tracks have sold for $290,404 in RR Auction’s Remarkable Rarities sale.

Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Sky Duthie, proprietor of Sky Duthie Rare Books based in York, England:How did you get started in rare books?

Our regular look at the new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible by Harry Spillane

The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in London has announced its winter programme of exhibitions including a new major exhibition on the work and life of Moomin creator Tove Jansson.

More than 300 exhibitors will take part in this year's NY Art Book Fair which starts this evening with an Opening Night celebration at MoMA PS1.Running September 24–27, NYABF will host a wide range of independent and institutional publishers, antiquarian booksellers offering rare volumes, small…