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Cincinnati – A collection of Civil War-era broadsides and ephemera from respected collector James Milgram, M.D., sent Hindman’s American Historical Ephemera & Photography auction well past its presale estimate to a $793,755 total across the two days of the sale. Held November 3 and 4, the…
Virginia Woolf is the focus of the latest free exhibition opening at The New York Public Library. Virginia Woolf: A Modern Mind will explore the life and creative genius of one of the most important figures in twentieth-century literature through her personal notebooks and diaries, family…
A remarkable archive of 42 love letters written by Bob Dylan to a high school sweetheart, Barbara Ann Hewitt, sold for $669,875 according to Boston-based RR Auction.
The Hewitt archive, in total, contains over 150 pages of autograph material written between 1958 and 1959.
Dallas – A hand-colored Calvin and Hobbes Sunday strip from May 24, 1987, sold for $480,000 at Heritage Auctions to set a new auction record for Bill Watterson and his beloved creations.
The first full-size bronze statue of Virginia Woolf, by acclaimed sculptor Laury Dizengremel, has been unveiled, in a stunning location on the Upper Terraces at Richmond Riverside by Virginia’s great, great niece Sophie Partridge and Virginia‘s great niece Emma Woolf with her two-year-old son…
As the lessons of the pandemic continue to be learnt, a new study from the University of Portsmouth and Copenhagen University has lifted a lid on the benefits readers took from novels during isolated periods of lockdown.
London - In the closing decades of the 19th century, David Bryce went from a relatively obscure publisher to a vastly successful entrepreneur almost overnight thanks entirely to the production of miniature books.
Historic Houses has announced that Chawton House has been awarded the prestigious Frances Garnham Award for Innovation in Education.
The extraordinary manuscript of George Orwell’s 1984 has been published by SP Books in a beautifully bound limited edition.
Held at the John Hay Library since 1992, the 197 remaining pages of 1984 (183 handwritten and 14 typewritten) give a unique insight into Orwell’s final secluded years in…
Austin, Texas — A credit-card-size fragment is all that survives of a manuscript scroll of the Gospel of John that was written in Greek circa A.D. 250-350. Once listed on eBay, it is now in the collection of the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. It is on view to the public…
