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Quentin Blake at 90: A Birthday Auction in Support of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration at Bonhams raised £390,023. Each of the 139 lots found a buyer making it a white glove sale. The online auction ran on bonhams.com from Friday December 2 - Friday December 16, the day the…
Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce the results of this 500+ lot sale which was held on Saturday, December 10th, 2022. When the hammer finally fell silent after a long day of competitive bidding, 57 lots made $1,000-2,999; 18 lots made $3,000-9,999; and one lot broke the five figure…
To open our 20th anniversary year, join us for an evening at Chawton House and be amongst the first few to see a very special edition of Jane Austen’s Emma before it goes on public display.
Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers is proud to present the comic and comic art collection of Andy Yanchus on New Year’s Day, January 1, 2023.
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is delighted to present its newest exhibition: What Might You Do? Christian Robinson. It opens January 14, 2023 and is on view through June 4, 2023. In only 10 years, Christian Robinson has emerged as a transformative voice in children’s literature.…
The David Stather Library, a remarkable private collection put together over a lifetime, is to be sold in a single-owner sale at Tennants Auctioneers, North Yorkshire on January 25. The books have been lovingly preserved by Stather and the auction provides a rare opportunity to purchase books from…
The artist, illustrator and best-selling author Charlie Mackesy is taking over Sotheby’s London on New Bond Street this Christmas with a new selling exhibition of his work (December 16 - January 13), and the transformation of Sotheby’s “Story Café” with floor-to-ceiling murals hand painted by the…
Two iconic Philadelphia institutions are teaming up to provide public access to an extraordinary historical collection. The University of Pennsylvania Libraries has acquired the archives of The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Academy of Music in an agreement that will facilitate research and access…
A Harry Potter-mad teenager won the rarest Potter book ever seen by a books expert – and it could deliver a magical result at Hansons' Christmas Harry Potter & Library Auction in December.
In 2012 when Chloe Esslemont was a 16-year-old school girl at The Nelson Thomlinson School…
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has acquired the archive of American author Thomas Pynchon, considered by many to be among the greatest novelists of our time. Comprising 70 linear feet of materials created between the late 1950s and the 2020s - including typescripts and…
