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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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As part of America’s 250th anniversary celebrations the Library of Congress is adding key historic texts to the America250 Time Capsule The tiny metal vial will hold synthetic DNA encoded with digital copies from the library’s collections, and will be buried at Independence National…
A signed leaf page by Russian-American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand from Atlas Shrugged, a limited edition first offprint of Nature signed by DNA co-discoverer Francis Crick, and a 1919 document written and signed at the Kremlin by Vladimir Lenin lead University Archives’ online Rare…
A pristine first edition paperback copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has set a new world record selling for £17,000 at Rare Book Auctions.The book, which would have cost £4.99 when published, was kept unread in a loft for almost 30 years and had an estimate of £7,000-£…
Heritage Auctions' June 5–6 Pulp Magazines sale will feature an exceptionally rare color variant of Weird Tales No. 1 from March 1923, and a Doc Savage No. 1 from March 1933.Other highlights include:
Rain is the subject of the National Library of Scotland’s forthcoming major exhibition including a copy of 18th century Scottish scientist James Hutton’s Theory of Rain and rain in the poetry of Robert Burns.
The 2026 McKnight Book Artist Fellows are artist, photographer, and book artist Christopher Selleck and artist, writer, andn educator Brooks Turner.Christopher's interdisciplinary practice explores masculinity, identity, and vulnerability through photographs, sculpture, and intimate book-based…
Rare Book School at the University of Virginia has revealed its public summer lecture series focusing on book history, bibliography, and print culture.* June 1: The 2026 Kress Foundation Art of the Book in Europe LectureAquatint Travel Books and the Haptic Picturesque with Douglas Fordham,…
George Washington's emergence from young surveyor to army commander and President is charted in 23 signed letters in Heritage Auctions' John H. Freund Americana Collection sale on June 19.Among them is a land survey completed when Washington was 19, a 1776 account of the seizure of Dorchester…
Sir Alec Guinness’s annotated copy of Hamlet, Virginia Woolf's copy of Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd, and Beethoven's autograph sketches for the overture Die Weihe des Hauses will go under the hammer at Sotheby's next month.
A signed 1885 contract between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show has sold for $168,213 at RR Auction’s The Western Americana auction of Jochen Zeitz.The one-page agreement signed June 6, 1885, formalized Sitting Bull’s appearance in the ‘Buffalo Bill Wild West Show’ for a four-…
