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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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On Monday, June 20, Heritage Auctions will sell the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded to Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov at auction.
Berkeley, CA – PBA Galleries announced a Platinum Auction of Elite Americana & Rare Maps on June 30th, 2022. The sale comprises a selection of 96 rare, important, and valuable examples of historical Americana, including much on Mexico, from printed books and manuscripts to cartography and…
In 1936, Carolyn Wells published Murder in the Bookshop, a mystery set in the rare book world, which she knew well. In the novel, a wealthy collector is murdered just before he takes possession of his newest acquisition: a book signed by someone named Button Gwinnett, not once but thrice. It was…
London — Forum Auctions is excited to present a private collection of exceptional culinary literary works that, as well as spanning five centuries, takes us on a fascinating gastronomic journey of discovery. The collection was carefully curated over a period of 40 years by the late Caroline…
The largest exhibition of Thomas Hardy objects ever displayed at one time has opened in the region he made famous through his fiction. Hardy’s Wessex: The landscapes that inspired a writer is being held across four museums in Dorset and Wiltshire and tells the story of how the region’s landscapes…
London – The name Peter Burra is now largely forgotten, yet before his untimely death in a plane crash in April 1937 he was regarded as one of Britain’s finest and most influential critics. At school and Oxford with the tenor Peter Pears he was friends of the composers Benjamin Britten and Lennox…
In our summer issue, we feature collectors of romance novels, both private and institutional. This is a topic we have broached once before, twelve years ago, but as mentioned in the current article, the genre has struggled to attain 'legitimacy' in the book collecting work, either because of the…
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Los Angeles – From fairytales to theme parks and Harry Potter to Game of Thrones, the Middle Ages have been mythologized, dramatized, and re-envisioned time and again, proving an irresistible point of inspiration for creative reinterpretations. The stories and images of…
Charlottesville, VA — Rare Book School is pleased to announce that Kenneth W. Rendell and Shirley McNerney have generously endowed an annual lecture on the importance of original manuscripts and rare books to human understanding. The Kenneth W. Rendell Endowed Lecture at Rare Book School will focus…
