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RR Auction is offering a collection of John F. Kennedy memorabilia this month featuring nearly 800…
In 1985 my wife bought me a check signed by Orville Wright. I had no idea there was a market…
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Un Discurso del Chocolate, written by Santiago Valverde Turices and printed 400 years ago in Seville, is considered to be the first book to focus exclusively on chocolate. It is being offered in an online auction ending April 13 by ANNO, Leilões de livros antigos e raros, an auction house…
Christie’s will present Valuable Books in the History of Astronomy from the Collection of Jay M. Pasachoff at a live sale on June 26 which will include many books on eclipses.
A selection of works and personal items including early photographs from the life of Cormac McCarthy and his second-wife, the English singer Annie DeLisle, are going under the hammer at Bonhams’ Fine Books and Manuscripts auction until April 10.
On Wednesday, April 10, Dominic Winter Auctioneers will sell 466 lots of Printed Books, Maps & Caricatures, Architecture & the Fine Arts, including a complete set of James Sowerby's Mineral Conchology of Great Britain (£8,000–12,000); Solomon de Caus' Les Raisons des Forces Mouvantes (1615…
Edgar Rice Burroughs' dual-edged knife used in the 1929 film Tarzan and the Tiger and the Gothic library table seen in numerous photos of the man at his Tarzana, California, home will go under the hamme on April 25 along with original cover artwork by James Allen St. John and Studley Oldham…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Mariah Barrett, manager of Pelican Bay Books in Anacortes, Washington:How did you get started in rare books?
The Discovery of America catalogue of works will be offered for sale at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair 2024 by a consortium of four specialist dealers, London bookseller Peter Harrington, the New Haven-based William Reese Company, James Cummins Bookseller of New York, and…
A copy of Action Comics No. 1, the comic book that introduced Superman to the world in 1938, has sold for $6m at Heritage Auctions during its latest Comics & Comic Art auction. Graded CGC Very Fine+ 8.5, this issue from the Kansas City Pedigree is one of the world's finest copies…
Robert Giroux’s personal copy circa 1951 of the famous scroll of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is among the highlights from Peter Harrington at this year's New York International Antiquarian Book Fair running until April 7.
This June, a cast of some of the UK’s finest actors will feature in a new, all-female, film interpretation of James Joyce's Ulysses.
