Benson's Book Appraisals

Visual Art

Framed handpainted Frank Frazetta Captive Princess 1973 paperback cover artwork

$1m Estimate for Frank Frazetta Cover Artwork for Edgar Rice Burroughs Novel

Unseen Doodles by Queen Elizabeth II to Auction

Original Joe Shuster Action Comics Cover Art and Frank Frazetta Artwork to Auction

Maps

WWII Operation Bigot map

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Rare Books

A substantial run of Wheel Talk, a bicycling trade paper from the mid-1890s

International Women’s Day: Five Rare Books for Collectors

TEFAF Maastricht 2026 Preview

Women's Suffrage: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Americana

The Custer letter

Post-Washita General Custer Letter Sold at Auction for $550,000

Gettysburg Rail Pass and Lincoln’s Last Message to Congress to Auction

Mysterious George Washington Historical Document Surfaces for Presidents Day

Auctions

1615 warrant signed by King James I of England authorizing the release of Sir Walter Raleigh from the Tower of London

King James I, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington Lead Autographs Sale

Illustrated Edition of First Cookbook Written by an American Heads PBA Galleries Sale

£279,800 Death Bed Photo Tops Oscar Wilde Sale

Photographs

Irving Penn's Cuzco Man, Woman, and Crying Infant, negative 1948, print 1989. Platinum-palladium print.

Getty Acquires Photographer Irving Penn’s 'Cuzco' Work

Unseen Early Italian Aviation Photography to Auction

Karsh's Apollo 11, Cabinet Cards, and 'The People of India': The Week in Rare Books

Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Book People

Honey and Wax Book Collecting Prize poster

Entries Open for Tenth and Final Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize

Fundraising Underway to Safeguard Writer Sylvia Townsend Warner's Archives

ABA National Book Collecting Prize 2026

Book Arts

Antony Gormley's Tree for Waiting for Godot on an upland bog in the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark Co. Fermanagh at the July 2019 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Exhibitions

Papyrus of Pasherashakhet (detail), Egyptian, about 375–275 BCE, ink on papyrus

Getty’s Egyptian Book of the Dead Exhibition Returns

Fairy Tales Celebrated in Major New Exhibition

New Huntington Library Exhibition Celebrates Links Between Land and American History