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This year’s Colin Franklin Prize for Book Collecting offered by the Bodleian Library’s Centre for…
Rare How the Grinch Stole Christmas artwork, Chuck Jones and Looney Tunes material, and Peanuts…
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The original working text of Alcoholics Anonymous with extensive handwritten notations and edits by the authors will be the final lot of The Jim Irsay Collection: Icons of History sale at Christie's on July 1, 2026.
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A Christie's auction on June 18 will focus on the major library at the Château de Tournay which was once the home of Voltaire.
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Handwritten lyrics, signed albums, and original artwork from Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan all feature in this month's Marvels of Modern Music online sale at RR Auction.
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Living with Nature is the latest exhibition presented by Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books in Basel and explores the dialogue between humans and their natural environment through almost a millennium of manuscript production.
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Sotheby’s Book Week this month includes a standalone auction on June 24 marking the most significant collection of Benjamin Franklin material to appear on the market in more than a century. 
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A total of 34 high-grade Golden Age comic books, most recovered by the FBI after they were stolen from a Portland, Oregon collector, will go on sale on June 15 at MyComicShop.com.Collector James Strand died alone in his home in July 2023 just before his 88th birthday, and thieves swiftly ransacked…
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A 1950 letter signed by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to French leader Charles de Gaulle has sold for $50,908 at RR Auction’s Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring WWII sale.The two-page typed letter, written on Churchill’s Chartwell letterhead and dated August 22, 1950, thanks de…
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To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States of America, the Berkley Collection presents The Declaration of Independence: Long Trail to Liberty at The Grey Art Museum at New York University telling the story of the troubled relationship between the British government and its colonies.
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In collaboration with the James Joyce Centre the National Library of Ireland will celebrate James Joyce’s Ulysess with a programme of readings and performances as part of the official Bloomsday Festival on June 16.
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The International Center of Photography in New York will open its Yves Saint Laurent and Photography exhibition tomorrow exploring how the photographic image became central to the making of the house of Yves Saint Laurent over four decades.