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British Library Publishing will publish Agatha Christie: A World of Mystery exploring the writer's…
The 2026 Melbourne Rare Book Fair hosted by the Australian and New Zealand Association of…
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A special presentation copy of the book Tenth Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China signed by Mao Zedong, an autograph letter signed by Thomas Jefferson from Monticello in which he mentions Napoleon Bonaparte, and a Mathew Brady carte de visite of George A. Custer, boldly signed by the ill-…
Cincinnati – A collection of Civil War-era broadsides and ephemera from respected collector James Milgram, M.D., sent Hindman’s American Historical Ephemera & Photography auction well past its presale estimate to a $793,755 total across the two days of the sale. Held November 3 and 4, the…
The Cambridge Elements: Publishing and Book Culture series published by Cambridge University Press is building up to be an impressive catalogue of mini classics. Offering academic quality research written in a happily comprehensible style, they cover a wide range of topics of interest to Fine Books…
Virginia Woolf is the focus of the latest free exhibition opening at The New York Public Library. Virginia Woolf: A Modern Mind will explore the life and creative genius of one of the most important figures in twentieth-century literature through her personal notebooks and diaries, family…
Here are the auctions I'll be watching this week:
A remarkable archive of 42 love letters written by Bob Dylan to a high school sweetheart, Barbara Ann Hewitt, sold for $669,875 according to Boston-based RR Auction.
The Hewitt archive, in total, contains over 150 pages of autograph material written between 1958 and 1959.
Dallas – A hand-colored Calvin and Hobbes Sunday strip from May 24, 1987, sold for $480,000 at Heritage Auctions to set a new auction record for Bill Watterson and his beloved creations.
The first full-size bronze statue of Virginia Woolf, by acclaimed sculptor Laury Dizengremel, has been unveiled, in a stunning location on the Upper Terraces at Richmond Riverside by Virginia’s great, great niece Sophie Partridge and Virginia‘s great niece Emma Woolf with her two-year-old son…
A new catalogue of rare books on chess from Bernard Quaritch features one of their own previous catalogues on the subject dating back to 1929, including many books on the history and theory of the game collected by J. W. Rimington-Wilson, and maintained and added to by his son R. H. Rimington-…
As the lessons of the pandemic continue to be learnt, a new study from the University of Portsmouth and Copenhagen University has lifted a lid on the benefits readers took from novels during isolated periods of lockdown.
