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Sotheby’s will offer a rare July 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence: The Essex Broadside in a standalone live auction on January 24.Attributed to Robert Luist Fowle of Exeter, this Goodspeed’s-Sang-Streeter copy is one of 13 contemporary broadsides of the Declaration of…
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) has announced that the 57th California International Antiquarian Book Fair has been cancelled.
At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, January 14, Early Printing, Americana, Architecture, etc., in 202 lots. Some expected highlights include a second issue copy of the 1854 Address to the Legislature of New-York, Adopted by the State Woman's Rights Convention ($600–900); a first edition of…
Vladimir Nabokov's controversial 1955 novel Lolita, inscribed to William James, Jr. and his wife Alice comes up at Christie's' latest Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana this week with a particularly unusual inscription.
Memorabilia from the much-loved British comedian Eric Morecambe’s career exceeded expectations at this weekend's dedicated Hansons auction at the Burton Albion Pirelli Stadium.
A copy of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer produced by the esteemed Kelmscott Press in 1896 has been sold by RR Auction for $68,750.
Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire will kick off the celebrations for Austen’s 250th birthday year with the opening of a new exhibition opening January 22 and running through 2025.
Rare Book School at the University of Virginia's 2025 schedule includes more than 40 classes, featuring online courses and in-person possibilities plus two new partner institutions, the University of Michigan and Oxford University's Bodleian Library which marks RBS's first international…
The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art (SVMA) is to hold an exhibition of 40 contemporary handcrafted artists' books inspired by Japanese aesthetics with the majority of pieces coming from Japan.
FrielDays, the five-year project celebrating one of Ireland’s greatest writers, Brian Friel (1929-2015), is to feature an annual strand of special birthday events inspired by the playwright.Each year, the birthday events will happen around Friel’s two birth dates – January 9 and 10 – to reflect the…
