A life-size bronze of writer Sylvia Townsend Warner has been unveiled in Dorchester her home county…
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Just this week Netflix dropped the new film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel, Rebecca. Starring Armie Hammer, Lily James, and Kristin Scott Thomas, the updated gothic romance has stiff competition from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 version, but we’ll give it a try!
New York — “With over an over 80% sell through rate, and with 16 of the top 17 lots selling to collectors, Swann Galleries’s Thursday, October 15, Rare & Important Travel Poster auction definitively showed that the market, and specifically private collectors, has remained robust and…
Dallas, TX – A note written in 1636 by the man who solved the riddle of human circulation and reproduction while serving as personal physician to King Charles I. A missive from 1880 by “the father of microbiology” to a colleague about cholera and “the hot virulence caused by the flight of pigeons…
For a collector, the associative value of this upcoming auction lot is hard to beat: Edward Steichen's personal, complete set of Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work will be offered for sale online from November 2-12. The set was deaccessioned from the John Teti Rare Photography Book Collection at New…
New York –– Poster Auctions International’s Rare Posters Auction #82 on Sunday, November 15th will feature masterpieces and rarities from over two centuries of poster design. Top artists include Cappiello, Chéret, Haring, Mucha, Steinlen and Toulouse-Lautrec.
The auction will be on view to the…
Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books AG comes to TEFAF Online New York in November (1st - 4th) with Epistres d’Ovide, a stunning edition of Ovid’s Epistulae Heroides, translated into French by Octovien de Saint-Gelais.
In the new issue of Strand Magazine published this week, a previously unpublished Raymond Chandler story appears along with an Agatha Christie story never before published in America.
Los Angeles — As Edgar D. Mitchell boarded the Apollo 14 he knew that if the mission was successful he would be just the 6th man to walk on the Moon. Boarding the aircraft with him, in his personal bag, lay copies of the King James Bible. Upon touchdown on 5 February 1971 they became the first…
Stansted Mountfitchet, England — For almost all of its existence, John Foxe’s (1517-87) ecclesiastical history, Actes and Monuments, has been known simply as the Book of Martyrs.
The Morgan Library & Museum opened "Poetry and Patronage: The Laubespine-Villeroy Library Rediscovered," an exhibition that brings together spectacular bindings from the library of Claude III de Laubespine.
