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Expelled by John Cheever
Miniature Books: Five Rare Books for Collectors
Highlights from PBA Galleries' miniature books auction on August 28 include:Expelled by John…
Charles Dickens (centre) during rehearsals for his own play, Mr Nightingale’s Diary performed at Tavistock House in 1855. On the left is Mark Lemon, editor of Punch magazine, on the right is either Wilkie Collins or illustrator Frank Stone.
Unseen Sketches of Charles Dickens in Play Rehearsals Go On Display For First Time
An unpublished set of pen, ink, and watercolour sketches showing Charles Dickens and his theatre…
Library of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Director Cassidy Lent on the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's Library
Compelling Collections
In a new entry in our Compelling Collections series, we profile the Library of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in an interview with its director Cassidy Lent:What is the mission of your library?
Photograph of Martha, Amalia and Sigmund Freud on holiday at Altaussee, Austria. 1905. Photographer unknown.
Freud's Love Letters Featured in New Exhibition About the Women in His Life
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Manuscripts, letters, diaries, photographs, and sketchbooks will be centrestage in a new exhibition which will celebrate the women who featured in the life of Sigmund Freud.
Design for the Byron Blue Plaque installed in 1867 but now missing
Public Asked to Search for Missing Byron, Milton, and Hogarth Blue Plaques
Current Events & Trends
Missing memorials to famous writers and artists are the focus of a campaign by English Heritage which aims to track down long lost Blue Plaques.
Typed letter in German signed by Albert Einstein
Letters by Robert E. Lee, Einstein, Emerson, and U.S. Presidents to Auction
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University Archives' September 18 Rare Signed Autographs, Manuscripts, Books & Memorabilia auction will also feature items consigned by the Manuscript Society from the estate of manuscript dealers and rare book scholars Forest G. & Forest H. Sweet and Julia Sweet Newman. Proceeds from the…
A typed insert from The Jungle Book proofs with Kipling’s late corrections
Kipling’s The Jungle Book Proofs and Wilkie Collins’ Travelling Desk Acquired by Cambridge University Library
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Page proofs of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book and Wilkie Collins' travelling desk are among a remarkable donation of literary texts and artifacts heading to Cambridge University Library as part of the UK Government’s Acceptance in Lieu scheme.
Vera Jiā Xī Mancini
David Ruggles Prize Winner Vera Jiā Xī Mancini on collecting Pride and Prejudice
Bright Young Collectors
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Vera Jiā Xī Mancini, who recently won third prize in the David Ruggles Book Collecting Prize for young people of color.Where are you from / where do you live?
Jessie Tarbox Beals, Washington Mews, [1918], photographic postcard
Greenwich Village Counterculture Chronicled at New York Public Library
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Becoming Bohemia: Greenwich Village, 1912–1923 at the NYPL will focus on the extraordinary rise and fall of the first large-scale countercultural enclave in the United States.Highlights from the exhibition which opens October 12 and runs through February 1, 2025,  will include:
Tim Cooke
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Chief Executive Officer to Step Down
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The CEO of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Tim Cooke, has announced that he will step down from the role in November after serving almost seven years.
Virtual book fair poster
Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary with Virtual Book Fair
Book Fairs
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) will hold a Virtual Book Fair on September 25-27, with Fine Books & Collections as one of its Cultural Partners.This special online event, part of the celebrations marking its 75th anniversary, will bring together booksellers,…
Polydore Vergil’s Anglica Historia: Rare Book of the Week
Current Events & Trends
Taking pride of place at Dominic Winter’s September 11 auction is the third edition of Polydore Vergil’s Anglica Historia, published in 1555, the year of the author’s death, and bound for Queen Mary I.