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Going under the hammer this week at University Archives is a ticket stub for Charles Dickens's…
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Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
Mario Puzo’s copy of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Notebook filled with Puzo’s annotations alongside those of the filmmaker will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions on December 7.
If you like to celebrate the progression of Advent but can't seem to find an advent calendar in the shops celebrating the world of fine books and collections, then Bernard Quaritch has got your back.
Among many lots achieving prices well above estimate at Tennants Auctioneers' latest sale was a small collection of religious manuscripts predominantly dating from the 17th and 18th centuries which sold in six lots for a combined hammer price of £9,630.
Posters from classic movies will go under the hammer next week at Heritage Auctions including Boris Karloff's final appearance as Victor Frankenstein’s monster, and Orson Welles's 1936 'Voodoo Macbeth'.Highlights of the December 2-3 Movie Posters auction include: * the Style A one sheet for…
Essex Wildlife Trust plans to turn the Tudor longhouse home and estate of the author of the groundbreaking 1969 Akenfield Ronald Blythe into a retreat for writers, artists, and naturalists.Bottengoms in the landscape of Wormingford in the Stour Valley on the Essex-Suffolk border, was previously…
The largest archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished works to come to auction will go under the hammer at Doyle including his favourite typewriter, inscribed books, original manuscripts, assocation copies, letters, and ephemera such as his scarf.
Freeman’s | Hindman will present the first of several installments of Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller at its New York saleroom on December 5. The auction will feature more than 250 lots from the well known book dealer and…
The Morgan Library & Museum has acquired the earliest manuscript with color illustrations of the poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, more famously known as The Night Before Christmas, by Clement Clarke Moore.
An original set of handwritten lyrics by John Lydon (also known as Johnny Rotten) from the Sex Pistols' 1977 debut album Never Mind the Bollocks have sold for $82,638 at RR Auction's Marvels of Modern Music sale.
