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Arch Books is selling a group of books, photographs, presentation copies and wartime material from the library of Air Chief Marshal Lord Portal of Hungerford, Chief of the Air Staff from 1940 to 1945 and one of the most importatnt British military figures of the Second World War.
Two key copies of comic collecting Action Comics No. 1 and Detective Comics No. 27 each surpassed the $1m mark in Heritage Auctions’ latest Comic Books auction.These marked the first appearance of Superman and the introduction of Batman respectively. The Action Comics No. 1 copy sold for $1,403,000…
Firsts: London's Rare Book Fair opens tonight with an evening preview before opening to the public May 15-17 at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea.This year's fair has Revolution as its theme, covering numerous angles from politicaland social to science and technology, with more than 100 exhibitors…
An 1885 contract signed by Sitting Bull for his appearance in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show will go under the hammer at RR Auction later this month.
Highlights of the Ernest Hemingway items in Potter & Potter's Spring Fine Books & Manuscripts auction on May 14 include:* A Matter of Colour (in Tabula, Vol. XXII, No. 3. Oak Park, IL, Publishing Board of the Oak Park)
Freeman’s will bring The Library of Stephen J. Farber to auction tomorrow featuring rare books collected over the course of nearly seven decades.
"I am particularly excited to offer this library in its entirety, as it tells the story of one collector’s lifelong passion and the…
The group of eight autograph letters signed by John Keats to his fiancée Fanny Brawne that were recently returned to their current owners after being stolen 40 years ago will be offered for sale at Sotheby’s in New York next month.
A collection of personal material relating to Diana, Princess of Wales including a handwritten letter from her sent during the period of her and King Charles III’s honeymoon at Balmoral in 1981 comes to the Fine Art & Interiors sale at Gorringe’s on July 7, six days after what would have been…
This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections advisor specializing in rare books and manuscripts as well as fine photography and prints.
Never-before-seen photographs of Marilyn Monroe, her annotated scripts, and her handwritten recipes are among items going under the hammer at Julien's Auctions' June 4 sale.
