A complete three-volume set of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in first editions,…
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More than 300 artists' books and experimental publications have gone on show in the MAK’s Turning Pages: Artists’ Books of the Present exhibition in Vienna.
A 1,000-year-old Latin Gospel manuscript believed to have been written by a community of women at Essen Abbey in Germany around the year 900 will come to auction next month at Christie's. The manuscript on vellum is one of fewer than ten 10th-century Latin Gospels to appear at…
The diaries of English molecular biologist Francis Crick who played a crucial role in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule have sold at Sworders for £13,200.
The Kelmscott Press edition of William Morris’s The Story of the Glittering Plain, or the Land of Living Men is among the headliners in PBA Galleries' Rare Books, Manuscripts and More sale today. As well as being an influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien its typography, paper and binding…
The Portuguese Salão do Livro Antigo antiquarian book fair returns for its second edition at the Municipal House of Culture in Coimbra this week November 6- 9.
Swann Galleries' November 6 Autographs auction features Florence Nightingale, Marie Curie, John Lennon, Thomas Jefferson, and Mark Twain, as well as manuscripts by John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman and George Sand.
Auction house Freeman’s | Hindman has rebranded the company under the name Freeman’s timed to coincide with the 220th anniversary of its founding in November 1805 when Tristram B. Freeman was appointed auctioneer for the City of Philadelphia by the governor of Pennsylvania.
Hot off the press is Remarkable Renaissance Books by John Boardley which focuses on 18 early printed volumes from Gutenberg's Bible to the early 18th century.
Highlights of Forum Auctions' online sale The Pity of War, The First World War in words and images on November 6 include:Late Lyrics and Earlier by Thomas Hardy
The National Library of Scotland is holding a pop-up display of Frankenstein-related material on November 7 to coincide with the release of Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel on Netflix.
