Fine Books News: Recent
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The current exhibition at The New York Historical focuses on the development of the ideas of the…
The Morgan Library & Museum's Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling will…
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A new solo exhibition of the work of sculptor Stella Waitzkin focuses on her book art from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
We reported earlier this month on Mark Twain's typewriter going under the hammer at Heritage Auctions. The Williams No. 6 model typewriter, its black metal frame fixed to a wooden base with its original Williams metal cover (slightly dented), eventually went for $106,250.
Bonhams Skinner’s latest Fine Books & Rare Manuscripts auction was led by a 182-lot single-owner collection of historical documents and autographs with an emphasis on American history.
At Hindman on Tuesday, February 28, 341 lots of African Americana.
Catawiki's new Italian Incunabula and Rare Books auction features more than 40 beautiful books, dating between 1474 and 1790.
The auction is characterized by pre-1500 important printing, illustrated works and first editions. From literature to science, from early theology to philosophy, the…
Chiswick Auctions will sell the collection of a former British journalist and presumed diplomat who gained access to some of the world’s most secretive countries during the Cold War era.
Gregory Peck's personalized leather-bound To Kill a Mockingbird script has sold for $84,375 at Heritage Auctions' Property from The Estate of Veronique and Gregory Peck sale.
Highlights from a selection of booksellers' catalogues of titles written by Roald Dahl:
* The Twits by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (illustrator). London, Jonathan Cape, 1980. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. Bound in publisher's red wraps printed in black. A rare format. Available…
Neal Stephenson's original manuscript for Snow Crash, the 1992 landmark cyberpunk novel which coined the term 'Metaverse', will be brought to sale by Sotheby's.
Sotheby’s will present physical and digital items connected to the book, with the majority of lots offered directly from author Neal…
A major gift and donation has helped the V&A secure David Bowie’s archive for the nation, with more than 80,000 items spanning six decades of the cultural icon’s career to be made available to the public for the first time.
