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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…
Auctions
More than 155 items related to Benjamin Franklin including printed ephemera, books, letters, newspapers, almanacs, and manuscripts will go under the hammer next month at the Sotheby’s The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin sale.
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Unique Friends scripts and photo album will go under the hammer on June 5 at Heritage Auctions to raise money for The Matthew Perry Foundation.Highlights will include:
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Timed to mark the 100th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth on June 1, Heritage Auctions' sale The Marilyn Monroe Collection from the Estate of Norman and Hedda Rosten will offer part of her personal archive unseen for more than six decades.
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Real stories of World War Two codebreaking and James Bond posters and ephemera will go under the hammer in the May 18-28 Bonhams online sale Espionage: Fact and Fiction.  Highlights of the sale include:
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In honor of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence the Morgan Library & Museum is presenting a select group of important materials relating to the history of the founding of the nation through September 13.
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When Charles Dickens began his farewell tour of public performances in 1868 he decided to introduce the brutal Sikes and Nancy murder scene into his set list.
Book Fairs
The ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair has returned to the Park Avenue Armory for its 66th edition, welcoming collectors, curators, tastemakers and bibliophiles for an exclusive VIP preview.Attendance reached 2,400 on opening night, surpassing last…
Auctions
A Frederick Douglass signed letter from March 13, 1893, addressed to Frederick Perry Noble, Secretary of the African Congress is among the highlights of University Archives' May 6 Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books auction.
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A site-specific art installation partly inspired by a quote from Pride and Prejudice is running at Jane Austen’s House in England where she spent the last eight years of her life.
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An early 9th century manuscript containing a text of Caedmon’s Hymn has been discovered in Rome by researchers from Trinity College Dublin.