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At Bonhams’ sale of material relating to the life of Oscar Wilde the top lot was the last…
Over the last year I have been reducing my collection because I've been Swedish Death Cleaning.…
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The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association has expanded its national student book collecting competition, making it open to all young book collectors aged between 18-30.
A fairly quiet period coming up in the auction rooms, but here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on:
This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections advisor specializing in rare books and manuscripts as well as fine photography and prints.
69-year-old Key West local Tim Stockwell has been crowned winner of the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest title, beating more than 130 contestants.
Highlights from the Melbourne Rare Book Fair which runs July 31 - August 2 at Wilson Hall, The University of Melbourne include:* Jack London, typescript of South Sea story Mauki which sheds light on the brutal labour trade in which Pacific Islanders were coerced or kidnapped into indentured…
Illustrating Austen at the The Holburne Museum in Bath will showcase the artwork featured in Jane Austen novels over the last 150 years.
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will open a new exhibition this fall exploring Eric Carle’s career through the perspective of food. Running September 20 through August 23, 2026, Cooking with Eric Carle will feature more than 50 works dating between 1965 and 2019.
A group of researchers led by researchers from Google DeepMind and the University of Nottingham has launched an AI model that can contextualise ancient inscriptions. The research, published in the journal Nature, explains how the AI model called Aeneas could greatly reduce the workload of…
Patron of the Charles Dickens Museum Miriam Margolyes has officially opened its new exhibition Showtime! revealing the author's love of performing and two centuries of productions of his stories for theatre, film, television, radio and podcast.The co-writer and solo star of Dickens’ Women in…
Leading the Cecil B. DeMille section of Heritage Auctions' Hollywood/Entertainment sales was led by the DeMille-commissioned granite Ten Commandment tablets which went for $325,000.
