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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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The New York Public Library has announced the acquisition of the professional and personal archive of journalist and bestselling author Gay Talese.
Catawiki has announced the upcoming auction of a copy of the 1543 first edition of Andreas Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem, the foundational work of modern anatomy and Renaissance printing, offered with no reserve price.
The British Museum has released the first details of what it describes as "its exhibition of the century" when the Bayeux Tapestry will open to the public in London on September 10 through July 11, 2027.
The Hispanic Society Museum & Library has announced the launch of The Hispanic Society Poetry Center which will also house the archive of Chilean poet David Rosenmann Taub (1927-2023). Poet and scholar Ezequiel Zaidenwerg has been appointed as inaugural Head of the Poetry Center, the first…
Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea saw sales of more than £5m with over 4,000 visitors through the doors to browse 100 stands, many relating to this year's theme of the fair 'Revolution' to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
The British Library will open a new exhibition exploring the life and work of the bestselling novelist of all time Agatha Christie later this year.
One of the 1,500 copies of the first edition, first impression of The Hobbit in an unrestored and bright dust jacket was the highest seller at Heritage Auctions' David Aronovitz Collection of Important Science Fiction and Fantasy, Part I Rare Books sale making $450,000.
The Huntington Library has acquired works spanning Edo-period Japan, Arctic exploration, early America, English criminal justice, colonial Mexico, and experimental photography in Los Angeles.
Ahead of next month's World Cup in North America sports cards featuring footballers Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal were among the top sales at Heritage Auctions' latest Spring Sports Catalog auction.
![Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, SEVEN PLAYS, Never before Printed in Folio (London: Printed [by Robert Roberts, Robert Everingham, and John Macock] for H[enry]. Herringman, and are to be sold by Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders, at the Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1685). Sold for $140,800](/sites/default/files/styles/mobile_listed_teaser_thumb_768x735_/public/media-images/2026-05/shakespeare.jpg?itok=byzO6pc5)
Leading the latest Freeman’s Books and Manuscripts sales was The Library of Stephen J. Farber featuring works by William Shakespeare, George Orwell, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Edgar Allan Poe, which went for a total of $1,052,544.
