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Los Angeles—CA—June 24th, 2014—The nation’s renowned auction house, Profiles in History, (
An amazing Gone With the Wind-era collection of correspondence between author Margaret Mitchell and a Philadelphia admirer, along with printed interviews, and the fan’s meticulously kept scrapbook will be auctioned next week by Massachusetts based, RR Auc
ITHACA, NY—National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, announces the launch of their next auction catalog.
This catalog features rare, antique and decorative books as well as select additions of ephemera and artwork. The artwork is led by two original paintings credited to Jean-Michel…
New York, NY, June 20, 2014—The Morgan Library & Museum has put on display a rare first edition of “The Star Spangled Banner,” marking the 200th anniversary in 2014 of the origination of the famous anthem. 
Christmas cards, letters, cartoons, posters and the manuscripts of celebrated war poets are among the collection on display for the first time in Enduring War: Grief, Grit and Humour
DALLAS—A one-of-a-kind signature book from Arizona’s Pima County Bank, containing names of Wild West celebrities such as Wyatt and Virgil Earp and hundreds of Tombstone citizens during the era of the O.K. Corral gunfight, sold for $68,750 in Heritage Auctions’ Legends of the West Signature® Auction…
New Haven, Conn.—Following commencement ceremonies in May 2015, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library will close its iconic building for 16 months to undergo a major renovation that will replace its climate-control systems and double its classroom space.
The 50-year-old library building…
June 18, 2014—Christine Volk, Chair of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) Scholarship Committee, has announced three IOBA scholarship winners: two will be attending the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS) in August—Adam Schachter of Langdon Manor Books in Houston, Texas, and…
A specially printed copy of The Importance of Being Earnest inscribed by Oscar Wilde to Major James Nelson, the Governor of Reading Gaol during the writer’s term of imprisonment there sold for £55,000 at Bonhams Books, Atlases, Manuscripts and Photographs sale in London on June 18. It had been…
NEW YORK—A strong selection of presidential autographs and letters written by some of the greatest minds of the 20th century drew bidders to Swann Galleries’ auction of Autographs on May 22.
