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Jack Kerouac's original scrolls for On the Road and The Dharma Bums are among a huge collection of…
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The Drew University Archives and Special Collections has unveiled a new collection of previously unpublished works about Frankenstein author Mary Shelley.
A rare paperback edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone comes for sale at Sworders this month.
Organizers of the David Ruggles Prize, an annual international book collecting prize to encourage and support young collectors of color, are seeking entries for the 2024 competition.
Highlights from items from original narrative art specialists Illustrated Gallery at The Philadelphia Show, April 25 – 28 include:* Rose O'Neill-Cecil Latham, illustration for the poem Baby's First Christmas by Margaret G. Hayes, published in Harper's Bazar, December 1910. Pencil, charcoal and…
A significant historical document signed by President Grover Cleveland approving Utah's entry as the 45th state into the Union has been sold for $27,188 by RR Auction. Dated January 4, 1896, the one-page document features President Cleveland's directive to the Secretary of State to affix the…
Emulating Books: Book Objects from the Lynn and Bruce Heckman Gift is a fascinating new exhibition opening today which features a wide range of items which look like books but aren't.Running through July 16 in the Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it…
Our regular look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.The Library Thief by Kuchenga ShenjéA debut novel with a Gothic feel as Florence, daughter of a bookbinder, takes on the task of restoring a collection of rare books at the unsettling Rose…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Maggie Mazzullo, proprietor of M Mazzulloo Bookseller in Colorado.How did you get started in rare books?
Vivian Maier's photographs only caught the world's attention several years after her death when storage locker sales in Chicago unearthed thousands of her photos and negatives. On May 2, Heritage Auctions will present a selection of her photographs that she printed herself or had printed in her…
Books written by and inscribed to the late former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright will go under the hammer next month at Freeman’s | Hindman.The private collection will be sold across a sequence of live and online sales including her distinctive pins and the fine and decorative arts…
