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A rare book laced with a deadly poison has been discovered by librarians in Leeds as part of a global search for the toxic texts stashed on shelves across the world.
Leeds Central Library’s copy of My Own Garden: The Young Gardener’s Yearbook was published back in 1855, and has been safely tucked…
London - In a rare appearance at auction, a magnificent folio from the Shah Tahmasp Shahnameh has sold for £8,061,700 / $9,091,179. The manuscript set a new record in GBP for any Islamic object or work on paper at auction, surpassing the previous record set by another leaf from the same manuscript…
Berkeley, California - On November 3, 2022 PBA Galleries will be hosting an auction with nearly 450 lots of illustrated children’s books, posters, graphic design, food & drink, and a wide selection of golf. Featured are examples from the golden age of illustration, posters from the 1890’s to…
Philadelphia - The day after the completion and signing of the Constitution of the United States of America in September 1787, George Washington sent a copy of the landmark document to Thomas Jefferson, along with a personal letter announcing its adoption. In Freeman’s November 15 Books and…
A new interactive exhibition has opened at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House in Manchester exploring the writer’s role as a radical changemaker in Victorian society.
The permanent exhibition in the new Brontë Room space looks at how the author of North and South and her daughters played a key…
New York - An important and previously unknown letter written by Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) in 1847 achieved an auction record when it sold for $353,175, more than seven times its estimate, on October 25 at Bonhams Exploration and Travel Literature ft.…
Chicago - Potter & Potter Auctions' October 20th, 2022 Fine Books and Manuscripts sales event was a best seller in every way. When the hammer fell for the last time, 112 lots scored $1,000-2,499; 42 lots made $2,500-9,999; and 23 lots broke the six figure mark! Prices noted include the company'…
Scholars have long known that William Shakespeare frequently adapted older, now-lost court plays for the public stage. However, they have never been able to determine who wrote them. A new book by Dennis McCarthy, published on Amazon, provides compelling evidence that these earlier plays were…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues with Douglas Nelson, proprietor of Nelson Rare Books in Haddonfield, New Jersey:
How did you get started in rare books?
Anyone familiar with 1994’s cult classic film, The Shawshank Redemption, will recognize this book prop. It is the leather-bound Bible that concealed, within its cut-out pages, a rock hammer used by Andy Dufresne, played by Tim Robbins, to escape prison.
