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The entire United States Constitution is to go on display for the first time as part of the…
The fourth annual David Ruggles Prize to support and encourage international young book collectors…
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Rare book dealer Peter Harrington’s cataloguing team credit a voice from beyond the grave in providing the clue to the recipient of a presentation copy of one of the rarities of English literature, a first edition, first impression of W.B. Yeats’s first book Mosada (1886). It is believed that…
The work of Max Beerbohm, the English artist, writer, and dandy noted for his satirical celebrity caricatures, is now on display in a new exhibition at The New York Public Library’s 42nd Street building.
Freeman’s November 16 Books and Manuscripts auction is led by a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.
Two landscapes by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) lead Bonhams' Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art on November 14 at New Bond Street, London. Untitled (West Bengal Landscape) and Untitled (Dark landscape with cliffs and tree), are both individually estimated…
A scarce astronomy treatise, written by a Welshman before Galileo was born, has been sold to a private international buyer after an intense bidding war.The first edition of The Castle of Knowledge by Robert Recorde (first edition, London: Reginalde Wolfe, 1556) was discovered among a box of…
Relics from the collection of sleight-of-hand magician, actor, and author, Ricky Jay went for nearly $518,000 at Potter & Potter's Ricky Jay Collection Part II Sale.
A new study using a large-scale data set of U.S. library book circulations evaluated the impact of book bans on demand for banned books. It found that circulations of books rose after being banned, banning a book in one state leads to increases in circulation of that book in states that did not ban…
After seven years and thanks to a team of international specialists, the Florentine Codex, the most important manuscript surviving from early colonial Mexico and rich in pre-colonial Indigenous knowledge, is now available to explore online with new translations and features.
Potter & Potter's auction Lewis Carroll and Alice: The Collection of Stephen and Nancy Farber focuses on a collection put together over four decades of books, illustrations, sketches, posters, posters, and art related to Lewis Carroll's books and characters.
A fragment of John Steinbeck’s original handwritten draft of Of Mice and Men, which was eaten/destroyed by his dog Toby in 1936, has sold for $13,000, more than six times its estimate. In the same Bonhams auction, Steinbeck's wrought-iron sword which he presented to his sister Mary…
