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Freeman’s | Hindman will bring a unique piece of American and French history to the auction block…
Scripts from the personal library of the late American director-producer Stanley Kramer will go…
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A Captain America Comics #1 is expected to be the star of the Hake's July 30 and 31 pop culture memorabilia online auction.
Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present Bohemian Club Books & Ephemera on August 10 featuring more than 200 lots of books, booklets, posters, flyers, programs, playbills, invitations, wine lists and menus, and reports from the private men’s club based in San Francisco and Northern…
On view in the Grolier Club’s second floor gallery from September 12 through November 9, Melville’s Billy Budd at 100 highlights the work left unfinished on Melville’s desk at his death in 1891 and posthumously published in 1924.
Collectors of Australiana at the Melbourne Book Fair next week will be offered significant first editions of historical works, including eyewitness accounts featuring finely detailed and hand-coloured maps, journey logs, and surveys from the First Fleet era from Peter Harrington. The fair,…
In this guest post for Fine Books, Umberto La Rocca writes about setting up The McCarthyist, a new website about Cormac McCarthy and his work
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Lise-Michelle Childers of Native Books in Hawaiʻi.How did you get started in rare books?
Sutton House, a 500-year-old property in London's Hackney owned by the National Trust, was built for one of Henry VIII’s statesmen and over its lifetime it was home to different families and used for different purposes including a girls’ school in the 17th century.
Ending on Tuesday, July 16, the Freeman's | Hindman Summer Reading sale, in 230 lots. A first issue copy of Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) in a first state dust jacket is expected to sell for $1,200–1,800, while a copy of the second American (and first revised) edition of Ernest Hemingway's In…
Quaritch is now offering The Little Holland House Album … with an Introduction & Notes by John Christian, published for the Roxburghe Club.
The Bath Book Fair, in conjunction with the ABA, will be held at a new venue, Bath Pavilion, North Parade Road, Bathwick, Bath, July 26 - 27. Highlights include: * IN WINTER & IN SUMMER YOU CAN BE SURE OF SHELL
