A new exhibition at The Grolier Club explores the evolution of technology and its impact on labor…
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Christie’s will be presenting the sales of two major collections of American books and manuscripts next month, The Bruce M. Lisman Collection of Important American Literature: Part One on June 15 - where the centerpiece is the finest collection of Nathaniel Hawthorne in private hands - and The…
Celebrating its 60th anniversary, the Stuttgart Rare Book Fair returns after the pandemic, running June 16-18, 2023, in the city of Ludwigsburg.
Potter & Potter's annual gambling memorabilia auction includes a wide selection of material including rare books on cards and cheating, prints and postcards, scarce playing cards, gambling equipment, and thousands of casino and poker chips and sets from Las Vegas and casinos around the world.
A 1968 Jimi Hendrix ‘Flying Eyeball' concert poster signed by its designer Rick Griffin has been sold by Heritage Auctions for $175,000.
Two very quirky boyhood photographs by the celebrated amateur French photographer Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) come for sale at Chiswick Auctions this month.
Mounted together Descent of the Rabbit and The Rabbit has Arrived have a guide of £10,000-15,000 ($12,500 - $18,700) as part of the…
Swann’s Focus on Women auction, scheduled for June 1, brings together an eclectic set of material representing women’s contributions to art, life, and society. From Louisa May Alcott to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Catherine the Great to Susan B. Anthony, and Jane Austen to Amelia Earhart, the works…
After working with New York bookseller Scott Cranin from Ivy Ridge Books for the last two years, Philadelphian businessman, bibliophile and Honorary British Consul for Greater Philadelphia Oliver St. Clair Franklin has sold much of his collection to the John Hay Special Collections Library at…
Freeman’s June 8 auction A Fine Collection of American Literature and History is led by an exceedingly rare 1855 first edition, first issue, of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. With an estimate of $100,000 - $150,000, it is one of only 337 copies printed in the more ornate first issue gilt binding,…
Here are the auctions I'll be watching this week: On Wednesday, May 17 at Dominic Winter Auctioneers, 325 lots of Photographs, Autographs & Documents, and British Royalty Memorabilia.
An Olivetti Lettera 35 portable manual typewriter used by Hollywood star Olivia de Havilland while she lived in Paris to write with fans and friends is on sale at Bonhams as part of its The Collection of Olivia de Havilland auction ending May 23. It comes with a letter signed by the actor…
