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Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Sam Butler, General Manager of Hermitage Books in Denver, Colorado.
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…
The 2024 iteration of PulpFest - the annual celebration of the fiction periodicals named after the cheap pulp paper on which they were printed - runs August 1-4 at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Pittsburgh.
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.
On Wednesday, July 24 at Dominic Winter Auctioneers, 498 lots lots of Printed Books, Maps & Caricatures, including a private collection of angling books and a number of lots related to Lord Nelson.
From Napoleon’s library in exile at St. Helena to sale at Heritage Auctions on July 25 comes Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney’s two-volume third edition of Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte pendant les années 1783, 1784, et 1785, first published in 1787 and still in print today. This…
Highlights from Bonham's Books and Manuscripts Summer Sale auction ending from July 25, with a collection of artists books and literature sold to benefit the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, include:* A double-page illustration from Richard Scarry's 1972 Nicky Goes to the…
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.
