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This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections…
Never-before-seen photographs of Marilyn Monroe, her annotated scripts, and her handwritten recipes…
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This month RR Auction’s December specialty sale is a curated Apple auction that boasts a historic array of early Apple-related material that will be auctioned on December 17.
London — The British Library announces it has acquired the Melford Hall manuscript, a rare seventeenth-century volume of poetry by John Donne (1572 – 1631), one of the best known poets of the late Tudor and early Stuart periods.
Another busy auction week kicks off on Monday, December 14 with A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterpieces at Sotheby's New York.
Today’s Video Friday is a one-hour webinar on the working relationship between special collections librarians and antiquarian booksellers hosted by the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) last month. It was moderated by BSA executive director Erin McGuirl and featured Charlotte Priddle,…
Even in 2020, the holidays arrive at a fever pitch (at least, that's how I feel), but gift-giving takes on new meaning this year. Below, a rundown of three titles to share with loved ones, and, given the givens, not a one deals with sleigh bells or other traditional trappings of the season. Yet…
After a decade-long campaign by the Mary on the Green group, last month saw the unveiling of sculptor Maggi Hambling’s memorial statue to Mary Wollstonecraft in London. It has not been without its controversial elements, but one undeniably positive aspect of the story is that it is a step forward…
A rare signed copy of Sun Yat-sen’s First Edition of his book The International Development of China, will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on December 10, 2020.
Dallas, TX – In 1956, upon the occasion of L. Frank Baum’s 100th birthday, Justin Schiller loaned to Columbia University impossible-to-find copies from the author’s Land of Oz series. At the time, Schiller, the sole son of antique-hunters, was all of 12 years old.
For the second time in as many auctions, the Steve Turner Collection of African Americana once again surpassed its presale estimate at Cowan’s Auctions.
Yesterday, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) held a webinar on “Wrapping up 2020,” a ‘bookend’ to its April seminar on how the antiquarian book trade was reacting to COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic. The same group of panelists reassembled for a 90-minute program…
