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Highlights from Swann Galleries' Important Signed Photographs from a California Family Collection auction being held today include:Leo TolstoyPhotograph dated Dune 27, 1900, and signed "Lev Tolstoy" in Cyrillic characters, vignetted cabinet card bust portrait by Scherer and Nabholz
One of the strengths of the Archives and Special Collections Library at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, is English and American Literature, especially the work of women authors, writes Ronald Patkus, Vassar’s Head of Special Collections and College Historian.
More than 155 items related to Benjamin Franklin including printed ephemera, books, letters, newspapers, almanacs, and manuscripts will go under the hammer next month at the Sotheby’s The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin sale.
Unique Friends scripts and photo album will go under the hammer on June 5 at Heritage Auctions to raise money for The Matthew Perry Foundation.Highlights will include:
Timed to mark the 100th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth on June 1, Heritage Auctions' sale The Marilyn Monroe Collection from the Estate of Norman and Hedda Rosten will offer part of her personal archive unseen for more than six decades.
Real stories of World War Two codebreaking and James Bond posters and ephemera will go under the hammer in the May 18-28 Bonhams online sale Espionage: Fact and Fiction. Highlights of the sale include:
In honor of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence the Morgan Library & Museum is presenting a select group of important materials relating to the history of the founding of the nation through September 13.
When Charles Dickens began his farewell tour of public performances in 1868 he decided to introduce the brutal Sikes and Nancy murder scene into his set list.
The ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair has returned to the Park Avenue Armory for its 66th edition, welcoming collectors, curators, tastemakers and bibliophiles for an exclusive VIP preview.Attendance reached 2,400 on opening night, surpassing last…
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with 2025 David Ruggles Book Collecting Prize Winner Laurane Reine-AdelaïdeWhere are you from / where do you live?
