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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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One of the pleasures of collecting Charles Dickens' books in their original, serialized parts are the colorful ads inserted at the front and rear of each. These are ads you do not want to skip past, and they are so enchanting and quaint that you may find it difficult to go on to reading the actual…
New York — Bonhams' 10 Exceptional Works of Science sale, available online from July 20 - 27, will celebrate major figures and breakthroughs within the history of science. Tracing an arc of discovery beginning in the 16th century with a book from the library of Rheticus to Stephen Hawking's most…
Dallas — Heritage Auctions' first Historical Platinum Session Signature® Auction proved historic indeed.
The finely curated, nearly sold-out 52-lot auction, held Saturday, realized $4,031,625 in just under two hours. More than 430 bidders from around the world vied for offerings that spanned…
The tourism organization VisitScotland has decreed 2022 a “Year of Stories,” and to that end has launched a project called Braw Beginnings (braw meaning fine, good, or pleasing) which translates the first lines of iconic books inspired by or written in Scotland into Scots, a language that is…
The book world is incredibly lucky to have G. Thomas Tanselle beating the drum, as it were, for book jackets.
Berkeley, CA — On Thursday, July 28th, PBA Galleries will host Part II of the Jack and Beverly Waltman Collection of Photography and Art with Additions. The nearly 450 lots features photographers of the legendary Group f/64 including Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Ansel Adams, Peter Stackpole,…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Daylon Orr, executive director of Boo-Hooray and founder of Fugitive Materials in New York City.
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London – Yesterday at Sotheby’s in London, a copy of the first edition of Sylvia Plath’s first collection, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) set an auction record for the author, surpassing the previous record of £87,500 for her copy of The Bell Jar set in 2018. The work sold for a combined £94,…
In an ideal world, we all would have whatever time and money we need to construct the private libraries of our dreams.
Marlene Dietrich did not have the eyes of a reader; she had the eyes of a seductress. Which served her well in her long Hollywood career. But, as it turns out, she liked books. Through November 24, Henry Sotheran's Fine Books and Prints in London is holding a selling exhibition of thirty of the…
