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Printed in Kilmarnock by John Wilson during the summer of 1786 and published on July 21, 1786, the…
The National Library of Scotland and publishers DC Thomson are celebrating the 90th anniversary of…
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One ring to rule them all,
One ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them.
A mysterious gold ring that may have been the inspiration for the One Ring in J. R. R. Tolkien's novels has gone on public display at The Vyne, an an aristocratic country house in…
Charles Dickens turns 200 next week and commemorative exhibitions are already in full swing across the globe. (Check out the Morgan Library, here in the States, or Dickens 2012 for a variety of events in Britain). But a particularly interesting bit of news came out yesterday when the…
Guest Blog by Steve Hare, bookseller, Penguin collector, trustee of the Penguin Collectors Society, and sometime FB&C contributor [note: this post from 2010 was updated October 2022]
Our series profiling the next generation of antiquarian booksellers continues today with Jesse Rossa, proprietor of Triolet Rare Books in Glendale, California.
New York — To commemorate the anniversary of America’s Independence on July 4, 1776, Sotheby’s announces a copy of Virginia’s Official Ratification of the United States Constitution as a highlight of Sotheby’s Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana auction on 21 July in New York.
London — Christie’s Valuable Books and Manuscripts auction on 13 July will present a complete set of Harry Potter first editions, each signed or inscribed by J.K. Rowling (estimate: £100,000-150,000), offered by one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world, Livraria Lello, Porto, Portugal,…
Lesser known children’s book artwork will go on show alongside major collectible names at the Masterpiece London art fair tomorrow, June 30, through July 6.
Wilton, CT — If the name Button Gwinnett doesn’t ring a bell, you’re in good company, even among many American history buffs. Unremarkable as he was, Gwinnett’s rare signed document accounted for completing an autograph collection of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence that was…
Coming up this Independence Day weekend, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, will open We the People: The Radical Notion of Democracy, which puts a rare, original print of the U.S. Constitution—there are just eleven known in the world—in conversation with works of…
New York — "My God what have we done." Captain Robert A. Lewis, the co-pilot of the B-29 Superfortress called the Enola Gay, wrote those immortal words shortly after 8:16 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, moments after he and his crewmates dropped the atomic bomb on the citizens of Hiroshima. The course of…
