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A new exhibition at The Grolier Club looks at the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early…
The Ephemera Society of America's Ephemera 46 Fair opens today and runs through March 22 with…
Auctions
Heritage Auctions in collaboration with SemperFi Comics has completed one of the largest private comic transactions by selling a Batman No. 1 for $6 million alongside a Superman No. 1 for $7 million. The results in its recent Comics and Comic Art auction follow the record-breaking $9.12m sale…
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The first British edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses and the 'Wicked Bible' will be among the hundreds of printed mistakes and errata lists on view in a new exhibition opening at Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library opening March 30.
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The private archive of explorer Captain Louis Palander af Vega will go under the hammer next month at Stockholms Auktionsverk.
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The Newberry Library has received a $4m grant from the Mellon Foundation which will fund a five-year project aiming to transform how Indigenous histories are preserved, accessed, and represented, and strengthen collaboration with tribal nations. The Newberry holds one of the largest print…
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The top lot of Freeman's' latest auction was a manuscript document signed by John Hancock, The Seed of American Victory Over Great Britain: The Continental Congress Appoints the American Envoy to France, which sold for $563,200, following a pre-sale estimate of $150,000–250,000.
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An album featuring the Rolling Stones, Beatles, and George Harrison's broken guitar string has been sold at  Richard Winterton Auctioneers for £7,000.The signatures were obtained by Portsmouth teenager Elizabeth Salt (Liz McBrierty, as she was then) who met John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George…
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The Brooklyn Museum has unveiled a rare 21ft complete and gilded Book of the Dead, the finest surviving example of its kind.Presented to the public for the  first time following a three-year conservation project, the papyrus anchors a newly refreshed funerary installation Unrolling Eternity in…
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The earliest known check drawn from Apple’s original bank account has sold for $2,409,886 at RR Auction's Steve Jobs & the Computer Revolution: The Apple 50th Anniversary Auction.Dated March 16, 1976, the Wells Fargo check marked 'No. 1' was written to printed circuit board designer Howard…
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Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac will explore the writer’s personal life from childhood to his death through more than 60 items from the collection of Grolier Club member Jacob Loewentheil.
Book Fairs
After its cancellation last year following the Los Angeles fires, the California International Antiquarian Book Fair returns next month.