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The celebrations marking the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio are still ongoing, including the open access website First Folios Compared.
Doyle's 219-lot sale of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps ends on Tuesday, August 15. Lots include a deluxe copy of Charles Phair's 1937 Atlantic Salmon Fishing estimated at $10,000–15,000. Sharing an estimate of $2,000–3,000 are the first English edition of Edwin James' Account of an Expedition…
"Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry" is a new series of essays focusing on the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Oscar-winning screenwriter, and bookseller, who died in 2021 at the age of 84 and whose personal estate auction was held in May this year.
The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells is the first biography of one of the 'lost ladies' of detective fiction who wrote more than eighty mysteries and hundreds of other works between the 1890s and the 1940s.
Chiswick Auctions’ 'Books and Works on Paper' sale on August 24 will include two rare Georgian manuals on the art of boxing. Both were written by well-known bareknuckle prize fighters around 1790.
On August 2, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed by John Hancock and members of the Continental Congress. Visitors to the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia now can see a rare 1823 engraved printing of the Declaration that belonged to the last surviving signer, Charles…
Celebrity became an international industry in the late 19th century and the English artist and author Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) was at the center of it, as a new NYPL exhibition Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity will show in October.
The Folio Society today publishes a new limited edition of the multimillion bestseller and one of the most successful Spanish books ever written, Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Shadow of the Wind.First published in English 20 years ago, this anniversary is marked with a leather-bound volume, blocked in…
A CGC 9.6 copy of Amazing Spider-Man #1 (March 1963) – one of only five of its type and grade known to exist – rocketed to a final price of $520,380 at Hake’s latest auction of pop culture memorabilia. The comic had been displayed at Comic-Con in San Diego.
At Toovey's on Wednesday, August 9, 113 lots of Prints, Maps and Posters, including a Theodor de Bry map of Florida and the West Indies (about 1594), estimated at £1,000–2,000; a Joan Miro lithograph Mur de la Lune (1958), which is expected to sell for £900–1,200; and a Rembrandt etching Het…
