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Finally, it is now possible to have a chat with the star of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as…
One of the world’s finest copies of the first issue of Fantastic Four has sold for $2.04 Million at…
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Bibliophile and co-propietor of The Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company (PRB&M), David M. Szewczyk has died unexpectedly while recovering from a short illness.
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
This week's we're focusing on Michigan State University's special collections librarians who have restored a 1535 edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia, a rare 16thcentury cartography text which contains one of the earliest instances of the term 'America' in print.
A rare piece of Bob Dylan's creative legacy featuring unpublished handwritten religious lyrics filled with Biblical allusion and accompanied by a harmonica sold for $25,000 in RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale.The lyrical musings penned on Ritz-Carlton New York letterhead explore…
Highlights from Peter Harrington's new Capital & Growth catalogue of works on economic theory, government policy, welfare, money and markets to trade and commerce include: * Children of the People by Jacob A. Riis
A complete set of 1968 Topps baseball cards leads the October 4 - 6 sale at Heritage Auctions, a 598-card collection with 517 of its cards graded Gem Mint 10 and the remaining 81 Mint 9s.The ’68 Topps set features the highly popular Nolan Ryan rookie card, as well as Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron,…
Notebooks belonging to Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding and letters to his Lord of the Flies editor are to go on show at a new exhibition to mark 70 years since the novel was published.
In a new entry in our Compelling Collections series, we profile the Library of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in an interview with its director Cassidy Lent:What is the mission of your library?
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.
