Unfurling the Flag: Reflections on American Patriotism at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and…
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A one-page signed autograph manuscript featuring Franz Schubert’s choral setting Das Grab has sold…
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The Miniature Book Society will hold their 40th annual Grand Conclave weekend conference August 23-25 culminating in the Sunday Book Fair which will be open to the public.
RR Auction's upcoming Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale running to August 14 features a collection of letters, documents, and manuscripts signed by some of history's most influential thinkers and leaders.
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Lacey Brown, proprietor of Henniker Book Farm and Gifts in New Hampshire:How did you get started in rare books?
A rare example of a letter written in his almost indecipherable shorthand by Charles Dickens has gone on display at the Charles Dickens Museum in London.
The National Postal Museum’s forthcoming exhibition Voting by Mail: Civil War to Covid-19 will explore the significant role of voting by mail in America. Voting by mail began in various forms during the Civil War when soldiers could not get home to vote, and it picked up steam again during…
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the independent charity that promotes the enjoyment and understanding of Shakespeare’s life and works, has announced a major step forward in its development plans.
Byron: A Life in Motion at the New York Public Library will explore the extraordinary life of Lord Byron, from his youth until death in 1824 at the age of 36, with a focus on the complexity of his character.
Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on this week:
The only surviving copy of My New York Misadventure, Winston Churchill’s account of his near-death car collision in New York in December 1931, features in Peter Harrington’s new catalogue of books, manuscripts, ephemera, and personal items to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Britain'…
An unsent version of the 1939 letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin Roosevelt warning that Germany could be assembling nuclear weaponry comes to auction on September 10 at Christie's.Einstein wrote in his short note that "Recent work in nuclear physics made it probable that uranium may…
