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Timed to mark the 100th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth on June 1, Heritage Auctions' sale…
Real stories of World War Two codebreaking and James Bond posters and ephemera will go under the…
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A garden spade owned by both George Bernard Shaw and Ray Bradbury is currently up for auction from Nate D. Sanders. The online auction, which includes many other lots from Ray Bradbury's personal art and book collections, concludes today at 5 p.m. PST. At the time of this writing, bidding on the…
The standard brick and mortar general rare bookshop is, for the most part, alas, a thing of the past. The Internet is now the world's general rare book shop; that and rising rents have driven many book shop owners to close their retail spaces.
In honor of the holiday upon us, here's a fun look at Thanksgiving past.
Five little puppies dug a hole under the fence and went for a walk in the wide, wide world....
It has been almost seven decades since those words first appeared in print, the first sentence in a modest little book that became, and remains, one of the best-selling, most widely collected…
I've spent the past few weeks trying to learn more about collecting and selling ephemera. While my primary focus is books, I'm also interested in the way ephemera can be used to complement a book collection or can form its own stand-alone collection. I wrote an earlier post about beginning to…
London — To mark the 120th anniversary of a story that has delighted countless children, the Folio Society is excited to publish exclusive editions of Beatrix Potter’s inimitable classic, The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Strictly limited to 1,000 hand-numbered sets, these meticulously produced facsimiles…
Asheville, NC -- Biblio.com, one of the largest ecommerce sites for used and rare books, recently announced plans for their third Biblio.live virtual book fair... this time with a theme. Set to launch on Thursday, August 4th, and running until Sunday, August 7th, the fair will be entirely online…
A First Folio of Shakespeare’s works—one of fewer than twenty remaining in private hands, and this one with Scottish provenance dating back to the seventeenth century—sold at Sotheby’s yesterday for $2.47 million.
