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A handwritten set of 17th century records of prisoners at Stafford Gaol has sold for £11,000 in…
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A rare piece of Bob Dylan's creative legacy featuring unpublished handwritten religious lyrics filled with Biblical allusion and accompanied by a harmonica sold for $25,000 in RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale.The lyrical musings penned on Ritz-Carlton New York letterhead explore…
A complete set of 1968 Topps baseball cards leads the October 4 - 6 sale at Heritage Auctions, a 598-card collection with 517 of its cards graded Gem Mint 10 and the remaining 81 Mint 9s.The ’68 Topps set features the highly popular Nolan Ryan rookie card, as well as Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron,…
Notebooks belonging to Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding and letters to his Lord of the Flies editor are to go on show at a new exhibition to mark 70 years since the novel was published.
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.
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…
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.
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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:
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.
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,…
A copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has sold for £8,340 at auction, 27 years after its owner bought it brand new for just a few pounds.The soft cover, first edition of the boy wizard’s literary debut went under the hammer with Richard Winterton Auctioneers in England earlier today,…
