University Archives' Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books features more than 485 lots including a set of presidential signatures from George Washington to Barack Obama, all signed as President, from 1789 to 2010. 

A presentation first edition of John Osborne’s seminal play Look Back in Anger will go under the hammer at Chiswick Auctions next month, including an original draft page for the beginning of Act 1.The lot is expected to bring £3,000 - £4,000 as part of the November 28 sale of Books and Works on…

Freeman’s | Hindman has announced the upcoming auction Design for Living: A Private Collection of Georg Jensen Silver, taking place on December 11 in New York City.This extraordinary single-owner collection brings together rare examples of Georg Jensen’s silver hollowware representing the very…

Running online until October 28, Sotheby’s Paris is presenting rare books and manuscripts from the library of the late Pierre Bergé, bibliophile, art collector, patron and aesthete. 

This year's prestigious Sandars Readership in Bibliography lectures will be given by Timothy Young, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts for the Yale Center for British Art, on the theme of 'Resistance to Bibliography'.The Sandars Lectures will be hybrid, offered in person at Robinson College,…

This week's choice was owned by Tywin Lannister (played by Charles Dance) in the television series Game of Thrones.The brown leather-bound Histories of the Greater and Lesser Houses prop appeared in episode six of season two of the HBO adaption of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire…

Our regular look at the new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.The Illustrated Cairo Genizah by Nick Posegay and Melonie Schmierer-Lee 

Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and the Antiquarian Book School Foundation have announced that Lorne Bair has been elected as the new President of the Board of ABSF.

At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, October 15, 200 lots of Erotica & Gay, Witchcraft, Literature, Illustrated, etc., including a number of Arthur Rackham illustrated works and seven albums of photographs and memorabilia from the San Francisco drag scene in the 1960s and early 1970s.

A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang, which runs through February 23 2025, at the British Library in London features more than 50 manuscripts, printed documents and pictorial works, many from the sealed ‘Library Cave’ in the cave complex of Mogao and on public display for the first time.…