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Highlights from the exhibitors at the 2026 New York International Antiquarian Book Fair which runs…
Rare books from the personal library of pioneering British scholar of Armenian and Iranian studies…
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Potter & Potter's auction Lewis Carroll and Alice: The Collection of Stephen and Nancy Farber focuses on a collection put together over four decades of books, illustrations, sketches, posters, posters, and art related to Lewis Carroll's books and characters.
Marc Chagall, Color of Life: Prints and Artist’s Books formerly from the Artist’s Estate sale at Christie's featured prints made over 60 years offered on the market for the first time, making a total of $924,462.Chagall's complete set of 82 lithographs for the 1975 Homère: L'Odyssée (43 printed in…
At Bonhams Skinner on Tuesday, October 31, 41 lots of Fine Books & Rare Manuscripts, including a German copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493), expected to sell for $50,000–75,000; and John Ledyard's Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage (1783), with the complete map, also estimated at $50,000–…
A fragment of John Steinbeck’s original handwritten draft of Of Mice and Men, which was eaten/destroyed by his dog Toby in 1936, has sold for $13,000, more than six times its estimate. In the same Bonhams auction, Steinbeck's wrought-iron sword which he presented to his sister Mary…
Organisers of a new exhibition to open next month at the Charles Dickens Museum are hunting for novelist Wilkie Collins' honest appraisal of his friend Charles Dickens' novels.Mutual Friends: The Adventures of Charles Dickens & Wilkie Collins opens next month at the museum, Dickens' former home…
Printed Matter has announced its Sunday Zine Fair, a special day-long event held on November 19 on the occasion of the Brooklyn Museum’s expansive survey exhibition on artists’ zines Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines. The Fair will convene more than 60 exhibitors in the…
Incline Press has launched Gifts of the Magi, a collection of new poems by Jamie McKendrick. Winner of numerous national and international writing prizes, this is their second collaboration (following the tri-lingual chapbook, The Hunters, in 2015) as they hope to mark the approaching season…
Highlights from Peter Harrington's recent catalogue Friends on the Other Side: Journeys in the Occult include:* Gerald B. Gardner, The Meaning of Witchcraft. London: The Aquarian Press, 1959
A never-before-seen photo of soldiers leaving Northern Ireland to fight in World War One and a serviceman’s diary from the trenches will go under the hammer at Hansons Auctioneers’ WW1 Auction on November 7.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues with Jalynn Harris who won second prize in this year's David Ruggles Book Collecting Contest for young collectors of color.Where are you from / where do you live?I was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland and currently still live here.What did you…
