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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.
Chawton House begins its 2023 visitor season and 20th anniversary year with two exhibitions.
Fine artist book producer Arion Press has released a curated selection of poems and stories by Edgar Allan Poe in an edition equal to the 19th-century master of the macabre.
RR Auction's March Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale features 900+ lots, highlighted by a royalty section including a royal warrant signed by King James VI to discharge Sir Walter Raleigh from the Tower of London. The historic one-page document is dated March 19, 1615. The King's warrant was…
First Folio Day: the Bard at the Bod is a special free celebration of the life and work of William Shakespeare at the Bodleian's Weston Library in Oxford on March 4 marking the 400th anniversary of the publication of his First Folio.
Talks, activities, discussions and performances include:
* "You…
For the first time in 500 years two prayer books belonging to Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn have been reunited and displayed together at Hever Castle in Kent, England.
Amaranthine Books is adding a new edition to its latest offering, a short story collection featuring 12 of Arthur Conan Doyle’s works about his fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of a Dozen Favourites.
