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Magna Carta Regis Johannis XV die Junii AD MCCXV Anno Regni XVII was published in 1816 to mark the…
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The literary papers of New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson will join those of Octavia E. Butler, Hilary Mantel, and Thomas Pynchon at The Huntington.
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Rhiannon Knol, a bookseller with Bruce McKittrick Rare Books in Pennsylvania:How did you get started in rare books?
Highlights from Peter Harrington’s new catalogue The Business of Travel include: * The Bisset Archive
This week's Rare Book of the Week is an album of letters written by Kurt Vonnegut which he kept carbon copies of and which comes up for auction at Swann Galleries on October 23.
Here's what I'll be keeping an eye on over the next several weeks:
A flight-certified Lunar Module (LM) Data Card Book used and annotated by Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan who was the last man to walk on the Moon has sold for $73,219 at RR Auction’s Space Exploration & Aviation event.
That was the question we asked subscribers to Fine Books & Collections and here is a selection of their answers:
Sprites, Spells, and Splashes: Magical Beings in Picture Book Art at The Carle features more than 40 classic and contemporary works on view November 22 through April 26, 2026. “From the brownies of the British Isles to the djinns of the Middle East, magical beings abound in folklore,"…
The Christie’s Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts auction including Americana totalled $5,410,327 with a copy of the earliest obtainable illustrated edition of Christopher Columbus’s 1493 letter announcing his discoveries to the King and Queen of Spain (De Insulis in Mari Indico nuper inventis,…
The literary backgound to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is explored in a new behind the scenes exhibition devoted to Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein movie.
