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A complete three-volume set of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in first editions,…
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Boston — Important sports cards, autographs, and memorabilia fill RR Auction's spring sports auction with online bidding March 11 through March 25.
Top lots include a rare handwritten letter by Lou Gehrig, on Andrew Jackson Hotel letterhead, dated April 6, 1936. Rarely made available to the public…
Chicago — Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce this 600+ lot sale to be held on Saturday, April 24th starting at 10am CDT. Given current public health regulations, the event will be held entirely online and live streamed from the company's gallery, newly relocated to 5001 W. Belmont…
New York — Printed & Manuscript African Americana is on offer at Swann Galleries Thursday, March 25. The sale will feature an exceptional offering of material with highlights from important figures and historical movements, including Frederick Douglass; slavery and abolition; the Civil Rights…
Austin, TX – The Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the Jacques Lowe Photographic Archive. Lowe is best known for his photographs documenting the Kennedy family, notably John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign and his first year in the White House…
Connecticut — Antiquarian Auctions in the U.S. offers Sale # 5: Natural History. The majority of the sale (over 120 lots) consists of several 1000 Off-Prints, Extracts and Pamphlets from the Malacological Library of Richard I. Johnson. The auction runs from Thursday 18th March until Thursday 25th,…
New York – The Manhattan Rare Book Company is celebrating Women’s History Month by offering for sale a historically significant first edition copy of a mathematical text from the personal library of Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), the renowned British scientist and mathematician (and daughter of the…
Leyburn, North Yorkshire, UK — A first edition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has sold in Tennants Auctioneers’ Books, Maps & Ephemeral Sale for £4,200 (plus buyer’s premium). The volume was published by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and is an example of the second state of the first issue…
New York — People who bought Suzie Frankfurt’s 1959 cookbook, Wild Raspberries looking for culinary inspiration were in for a surprise. In place of the lavish haute cuisine recipes common at the time, they found absurd concoctions such as that for Omlet Greta Garbo – Always to be eaten alone in a…
Dallas – A 93-year-old Winnie the Pooh illustration, Chas Addams cartoons, all three original trilogy Star Wars video cassette covers and an array of pulp covers from Norman Saunders and Virgil Finlay are among the top highlights in Heritage Auctions’ Illustration auction April 30.
Chicago – Hindman Auctions will present Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection at auction on March 19. The sale includes several of the most significant literary works of the 19th and 20th centuries, representing both American and English literature. Strengths of the collection include…
