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The Morgan Library & Museum's exhibition lineup for 2026 includes a display of late medieval…
A new exhibition at The Grolier Club explores the evolution of technology and its impact on labor…
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A rare volume marking the start of the Harry Potter phenomenon has been found in an Oxfordshire village primary school which bought it for £1 in 1997.
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There are some major manuscript lots in the Sotheby's London sale on Wednesday, September 6, Freddie Mercury: A World of His Own. The autograph manuscript working lyrics for "Bohemian Rhapsody" have been estimated at £800,000–1,200,000; a notebook with autograph lyrics for songs on the Jazz album…
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Potter & Potter Auctions' sale of The Collection of Robin and Kathryn Smiley, the co-publishers and editors of Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine, smashed presale estimates to realize $516,000.First or unusual editions of the world's most recognized 19th century books took several of the top…
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A lost letter written by lexicographer Samuel Johnson and officially logged as ‘present location unknown’ for many years has been found on a routine valuation by Chorley’s.The letter - published in The Letters of Samuel Johnson (Oxford, 1994; Bruce Bedford, ed.) - was tucked away with…
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In honor of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s First Folio of 1623, Princeton University Library (PUL) will present In the Company of Good Books: From Shakespeare to Morrison in its Milberg Gallery. 
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A cache of letters by Ernest Hemingway shedding light on his harrowing experiences surviving two consecutive plane crashes and the devastating injuries he sustained went under the hammer at Nate D Sanders Auctions yesterday. 
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Chiswick Auctions’ Books and Works on Paper sale on August 24 included a private collection of Boxiana for £80,000.
Bright Young Collectors
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Oscar Salguero, of NYC, who recently won the grand prize in the 2023 David Ruggles Book Collecting Contest.Where are you from / where do you live?I am originally from Lima, Peru. I grew up there until I was 18 years old and have lived in the…
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Christie's will present an autograph manuscript by Albert Einstein in the 10th Shanghai Auction Anniversary: 20th/21st Century Art Evening Sale on September 23 at the Waldorf Astoria Shanghai.  
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Penny Bloods: Gothic Tales of Dangerous Women, edited by Nicole C. Dittmer, continues the British Library's programme of bringing forgotten classic works back into publication.