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Chawton House has acquired a first edition of Jane Austen's Sanditon, three handwritten letters by…
The third part of JG Autographs's online Collecting Camelot: The Kennedy Legacy auction features…
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The latest in the Cambridge University Press (CUP) series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture focuses on the bibliogeography of bookselling and is currently available as a free download.
Fine Books & Autographs are at Swann Galleries on March 2. The auction will feature autographs from political figures, pop culture icons, artists and authors among others, and will include first editions of key nineteenth and twentieth-century literary works.
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Bonhams Skinner’s latest Fine Books & Rare Manuscripts auction was led by a 182-lot single-owner collection of historical documents and autographs with an emphasis on American history.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…
