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Porto's first Antiquarian Book Fair (1º Salão do Livro Antigo no Porto) will take place May 1-3 in…
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Highlights from James Cummins Bookseller's latest catalogue There's No Place Like Home including:
* Engraved pattern book of cast brass furniture fittings and other hardware
Autographed items by Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Pancho Villa, Mahatma Gandhi, and an archive of letters from Ezra Pound feature in the June 15 Fine Books & Manuscripts sale at Swann Galleries which will feature many rare autographs and books, with a special selection dedicated to…
Historians at Hever Castle believe that Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, and Thomas Cromwell all owned a copy of the same prayer book.
Leading Bonhams' Fine Books & Manuscripts auction on June 22 in New York, is a previously unknown, extensive medical manuscript by John Morgan, the father of American medicine and the founder of America’s first medical college in 1765.
A series of letters from J.R.R. Tolkien to a fan discussing his feelings about hobbits and the writing of The Lord of the Rings are coming to auction at Bonhams later this month.
Swann Galleries’ third iteration of Focus on Women, an auction dedicated to the contributions of women to art, life, and society, brought $361,090, with literature and archives - especially those of Charlotte Perkins Gilman - among the leading items of the sale.
Hindman will present two days of manuscripts, archives, early photography, and artifacts spanning hundreds of years of American history in its June 15-16 American Historical Ephemera & Photography auction.
The June 15 session will focus on American conflicts including the Civil War and Indian…
RR Auction’s latest Military and Cold War auction saw sales of rare historical war memorabilia come close to totalling $500,000.
The British Library's new exhibition Digital Storytelling explores how evolving online technologies have changed how writers write, and readers read.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has announced that the Billy Rose Theatre Division has acquired the archive of George C. Wolfe, the writer, director, and producer. The acquisition continues the Library’s mission to preserve documents of important figures who have advanced…
