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Bath Book Fair returns to Bath Pavilion later this week co-hosted by the Provincial Booksellers…
Bonhams' upcoming sale of items from the Brentwood residence of William 'Billy' Haines includes a…
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The Property from The Estate of Veronique and Gregory Peck auction will feature numerous scripts spanning Peck's film career, awards, landmark costumes, works of art and mementos the couple accrued during their lives. The auction will be presented by Heritage Auctions on February 23.
A chance meeting with a children’s author 23 years ago could spark an auction windfall for a retired school librarian.
In 1999 Janette Tuckwell was working at Millfield Preparatory School in Glastonbury, England, when she received a call from Waterstones book shop in Wells, Somerset.
Janette…
The Adana printing press is 100 years old and to mark the centenary of the company St Bride Library in London has launched a new exhibition, Print Pound Notes! Celebrating 100 years of Adana. The display will bring together for the first time a unique collection of material, including early…
The love-hate relationship Mark Twain had with typewriters is well-documented. The author known best for his stories about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn soured on the devices - he acquired his first in 1874 - that were according to him, "full of caprices, full of defects - devilish ones."
He was…
A major new display at The National Trust’s historic Mottisfont property in Hampshire focuses on the legacy of one of Britain's best-loved illustrators and cartoonists, Norman Thelwell.
More than 150 works including his trademark ponies and cartoons, plus beautiful watercolours of landmarks and…
A collection of some of the earliest US textbooks and style guides on punctuation is now on show at The Museum of Printing in Massachusetts.
At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, January 31, 210 lots of Literature, Miniatures, Graphics & Illustrated Books, including the 1969 Maecenas Press Alice in Wonderland portfolio with illustrations by Salvador Dali, Barry Moser's 1985 Wizard of Oz, and a vellum copy of the 1902 Essex House…
A banned World War II poster, best known by its nickname 'the blonde bombshell', is set to thrill as much as it did in 1941 at The Vintage Posters Sale between January 26 and February 2 online at bonhams.com. Designed by Abram Games, this rare vintage poster has become seductively infamous -…
An impressive single-owner collection of Football Ephemera & Programmes that includes items from the majority of football teams in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales as well as the World Cup, Internationals and the Olympics will be offered by Graham Budd Auctions on Tuesday, February 7,…
RR Auction's February Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction boasts over 850 rare and remarkable items and celebrates Presidents' Day with a special section featuring incredible presidential autographs, artifacts, and memorabilia.
