A complete three-volume set of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in first editions,…
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Boston — With over 800 rare and remarkable items up for auction, R.R. Auction's April Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale features something for every collector with online bidding March 26 - April 14.
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New York — One of Andy Warhol’s most important early artist books 25 Cats Name[d] Sam and One Blue Pussy printed in New York in 1954 by Seymour Berlin, sold for US$106,562 at Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts online sale in New York which ended today (Tuesday, March 30). It was one of…
In October 1955, Allen Ginsberg read “Howl” publicly for the first time in front of a San Francisco audience that included fellow Beat Generation poets Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who later published it.
New York — Early Printed Books are at Swann Galleries Thursday, April 8 with noteworthy publications relating to early printed medical, scientific and travel works, including a selection of incunabula.
Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge (Harvard University Press, nonfiction) by Richard Ovenden is one of the most important books about books to be published in recent years, exploring, as it does, how and why knowledge is erased, from book burning to vulnerable…
New York — Swann Galleries’ March 11 sale of Fine Photographs saw strong results across the auction with humanist works and portraits drawing interest from collectors. “We were pleased to see strength across the auction at all levels. We continue to see a robust and enthusiastic response to…
Wilton, CT – An exquisite portrait miniature of Thomas Jefferson along with two locks of hair (one of them Jefferson’s), and a letter and photograph signed by Albert Einstein are just two of the superstar lots in University Archives’ online-only auction of rare manuscripts, autographs and…
Larry McMurtry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Oscar-winning screenwriter, and esteemed antiquarian bookseller, who died last week at the age of 84, was something of a patron saint of bibliophiles. He is pictured above on the cover of our spring 2012 issue, when we visited him at his home in…
London — Like many classics of world literature, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales has appeared in many guises over the centuries. It has been filmed several times, most memorably by the Italian film director Pier Paulo Pasolini who cast himself in the plum role of Chaucer, and most recently was…
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
Aguttes will sell 261 lots of Autographes & Manuscrits on Monday, March 29, with most lots estimated at €2,500 or less.
