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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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The Grolier Club in New York City presents an exhibition exploring America’s presidents as bibliophiles, readers, and writers.
At Freeman's on Tuesday, July 25, 166 lots of Books and Manuscripts, including one of just two known copies of a 1781 Revolutionary War pamphlet America in Arms, estimated at $15,000–25,000. At the same estimate is a trimmed and framed copy of Audubon's Ruffed Grous from the Havell edition.…
Highlights from Sotheby's third annual Hip Hop sale, timed to coincide with its 50th anniversary, include:* Eric Orr, signed original studies for Rappin’ Max Robot, the first Hip Hop comic book, 1984 & 1985 (estimate $2,000 - 3,000).
Heritage Auction's The Irwin Allen Collection sale on July 29 features storyboards and concept art from some of the producer-director's most popular 1970s disaster movies.
A historically significant Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem that was barred from leaving the UK has been bought by the University of Leeds Libraries.
The Raab Collection has acquired - and is offering for sale for the first time publicly - Albert Einstein’s letter on the biblical version of creation, comparing science and religion. The letter was written to a group of students whose teacher had contacted the scientist on their behalf.
Freeman’s July 25 Books and Manuscripts auction is led by more than a hundred Americana lots, almost 60 of which are either examples from the signers of the Declaration of Independence or related to that document. The leading lot is America in Arms, an extremely rare anti-British pamphlet published…
A petition to reinstate Kate Greenaway's name in the literary award which bore her name for decades is gathering pace.
More than 10,000 books and other items from the library of the late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey in Essex will go under the hammer at Dominic Winter Auctioneers in September 2023 and January 2024 sales.The collection includes items of national and international significance which were…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues with Giovanni Scorcioni, co-owner of Facsimile Finder in San Marino.How did you get started in rare books?
