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The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in London has announced its winter programme of…
The Raab Collection has acquired and is offering for sale a letter from Thomas Jefferson to…
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A group of University of Notre Dame researchers suggest Benjamin Franklin should also be known for his innovative ways of making money.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Deputy Director Patrick J. Lechleitner has traveled to Rome to repatriate an original edition of a stolen 15th century Columbus letter to Italian officials. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) had collaborated with international partners and subject…
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The University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center for Writers is establishing a retreat for internationally known writers at the Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck’s former residence in Sag Harbor, New York.
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The Smiley collection features modern firsts of literature, mystery and detective fiction, and western literature, with a special emphasis on books into film. The 382 lot sale will be held by Potter & Potter Auctions on August 17.
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The Library of Congress has acquired the music manuscripts and papers of contemporary American composer, conductor and writer John Adams. Adams (1947 - ) is known for works including the opera Nixon in China and concert pieces such as Shaker Loops, Harmonielehre, Road Movies, Chamber Symphony, and…
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The University of Sydney's Fisher Library has digitised Virginia Woolf's personal copy of the first edition of her debut novel, The Voyage Out, featuring inscriptions and edits by her hand. This first edition and Woolf's personal copy is the only one of its kind publicly available in the world.
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The Grolier Club in New York City presents an exhibition exploring America’s presidents as bibliophiles, readers, and writers.
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Heritage Auction's The Irwin Allen Collection sale on July 29 features storyboards and concept art from some of the producer-director's most popular 1970s disaster movies.
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A historically significant Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem that was barred from leaving the UK has been bought by the University of Leeds Libraries.
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The Raab Collection has acquired - and is offering for sale for the first time publicly - Albert Einstein’s letter on the biblical version of creation, comparing science and religion. The letter was written to a group of students whose teacher had contacted the scientist on their behalf.