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A century after Sir James Roberts gifted Haworth Parsonage to the Brontë Society it has announced…
Of the 138 lots covering the history of science at PBA Galleries' August 28 auction are 18 related…
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Thomas Taylor's original watercolour illustration for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone has sold for $1.9 million at Sotheby’s to become the most valuable Harry Potter item ever sold at auction. The illustration was chased by four bidders on the phone and online for nearly 10 minutes…
A poster by brothers Vladimir & Georgij Stenberg advertising the 1929 silent movie Man with the Movie Camera will go under the hammer on July 4 at Kiefer's Alte Drucke, Handschriften und Theologie auction.The Stenbergs were avant-garde Russian artists and designers who also produced posters for…
Freeman’s | Hindman's first Western Manuscripts and Miniatures sale in Chicago on June 27 will present illuminated leaves and Books of Hours from the 13th to the 15th centuries, and showcase more than 70 lots with an estimated total value of $400,000.Gretchen Hause, Senior Vice President and…
Ruth Nelkin of Stamford, Connecticut and New York City was a collector of iconic Japanese prints, around 250 of which will go under the hammer tomorrow at Heritage Auctions featuring works by masters of the form including Katsushika Hokusai, Takahashi Hiroaki, and Yoshida Hiroshi.
Charismatic young actor Vivian MacKerrell was one of the inspirations for the eponymous central character in Withnail and I, writer-director Bruce Robinson’s 1987 cult classic. His never previously released diaries which feature vivid first-hand accounts of moments immortalised on screen including…
Going under the hammer at Sotheby’s New York's Fine Books and Manuscripts sale on June 26 are three major lots focusing on Robert Frost, A. E. Housman, and William Blake.
Lee Elias’ original art for Black Cat Mystery No. 50 has sold for $840,000 after a prolonged bidding war at Heritage Auctions' June Comics & Comic Art auction.
The Folio Society today launched a limited edition of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, illustrated by independent design studio La Boca and introduced by novelist Elif Shafak.The launch is accompanied by research from the publisher around the key themes in the novel as it relates to the…
A rare autograph musical manuscript by Ludwig van Beethoven featuring his first draft for the lied Neue Liebe, neues Leben (New Love, New Life), has been sold for $225,000 at Boston-based RR Auction.
The Dublin-born novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch has been commemorated with one of English Heritage's iconic Blue Plaques.
