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The Chelsea Rare Book Fair returns to the Chelsea Old Town Hall on the Kings Road in London on…
More than 70 Bibles and devotional works from from the Estate of Robert Funk will go under the…
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The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries are pleased to announce the opening of Fakes, Lies, and Forgeries, a new rare book exhibition at the George Peabody Library. The exhibition features highlights from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection, the world’s most…
DALLAS—Patrick Nagel’s sultry 1980s acrylic on canvas Posing with Panther is expected to sell for $60,000+ in Heritage Auctions’ Oct. 17 Illustration Art Signature® Auction in New York.
New York—Bonhams is pleased to present the Gemini Collection of Modern Prints & Illustrated Books, at auction on October 28 in New York. The sale comprises 166 lots and is anticipated to fetch $1-1.5 million.
Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination opens at the British Library exploring Gothic culture’s roots in British literature and celebrating 250 years since the publication of the first Gothic novel.
BEVERLY HILLS—A remarkable and frank correspondence archive between Cormac
BOSTON, MA—(September 30, 14) A collection of 13 original and most likely unpublished negatives from the wedding of John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy will be auctioned by Boston, MA based RR Auction in October.
By David Bloom—General Robert E. Lee’s order of surrender to the Army of Northern Virginia was written and issued on April 10, 1865, the day after his meeting at Wilmer McLean’s house in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, with General Ulysses S. Grant. It was where the terms of surrender had been…
Today we know Mark Twain as the author of American classics such as "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and its sequel, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." But in his time, Twain was a controversial satirist and popular public figure who traveled the world and helped heal post-Civil War America with his…
MIAMI (September 29, 2014)—The Miami International Map Fair, the longest continuously running map fair in the world, will return to
London—A letter sent in 1846 discussing a potential visit to Brookroyd, and asking for more information about coaches leaving Bradford sent from Charlotte Brontë to her lifelong friend Ellen Nussey stole the show yesterday at Fraser’s sale, ‘
