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Highlights from PBA Galleries' miniature books auction on August 28 include:Expelled by John…
An unpublished set of pen, ink, and watercolour sketches showing Charles Dickens and his theatre…
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Running until October 9, Four-Legged and Feathered Friends is an online fundraising sale at Bonhams which aims to raise funds for the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration.
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art has announced the first exhibition about the transformative power of Free to Be… You and Me, a cultural force that inspired generations of children and families.
The first library at London's Guildhall was founded by money bequeathed by former Lord Mayor of the City of London Richard 'Dick' Whittington who gained a reputation as an astute medieval merchant, politician, and philanthropist.
What is believed to be the first American photograph of a romantically posed interracial couple will go under the hammer at Freeman’s | Hindman on October 26.
This week's Rare Book of the Week is today's launch offering from Macmillan's new Fablelistik Editions, a limited and fine press books publisher. In its first collection, Fablelistik is offering three editions of Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, all of which will include…
Tanya Patton, Elise Severe, and Deb Fortner are this year’s recipients of the Book Club of Washington’s Emory Award - presented annually “to a Washingtonian who has made an extraordinary contribution to the culture of the book" - for their efforts to save their local library.
At ALDE on Wednesday, October 2, Bibliothèque J.-M. Rebois, in 136 lots, a nice batch of French books in fine bindings. Highlights are expected to include Charles le Brun's Tapisseries du Roy (1746) in a binding with the arms of Louis XV and a presentation inscription to Comte Vorontsov (€7,000–9,…
Heritage Auctions’ October 10-11 Rare Books auction will feature first edition works by J. R. R. Tolkien, Adam Smith, and Stephen King.
Jane Austen's House has successfully secured grant funding from The Textile Society to conserve Cassandra Austen's embroidered handkerchief.
Going under the hammer at Brunk Auctions this weekend is a rare original printed, signed archetype of the Constitution of the United States which was recently discovered after being tucked away for generations at Hayes Plantation in Edenton, North Carolina, an 1821 National Historic Landmark.
