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A first-of-its-kind, bilingual exhibition at the NYPL will showcase Puerto Rican life and culture…
V&A East Storehouse opens its doors on September 13 to the David Bowie Centre and the singer's…
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Heritage Auction's The Irwin Allen Collection sale on July 29 features storyboards and concept art from some of the producer-director's most popular 1970s disaster movies.
A historically significant Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem that was barred from leaving the UK has been bought by the University of Leeds Libraries.
The Raab Collection has acquired - and is offering for sale for the first time publicly - Albert Einstein’s letter on the biblical version of creation, comparing science and religion. The letter was written to a group of students whose teacher had contacted the scientist on their behalf.
Freeman’s July 25 Books and Manuscripts auction is led by more than a hundred Americana lots, almost 60 of which are either examples from the signers of the Declaration of Independence or related to that document. The leading lot is America in Arms, an extremely rare anti-British pamphlet published…
More than 10,000 books and other items from the library of the late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey in Essex will go under the hammer at Dominic Winter Auctioneers in September 2023 and January 2024 sales.The collection includes items of national and international significance which were…
Ludwig Bemelmans' working prototype for Madeline and a series of his letters and drawings come up at Sotheby's Fine Books and Manuscripts auctions this week.
Sir Roger Moore (1927-2017) was a popular incarnation of James Bond on the big screen, playing the spy created by Ian Fleming in seven films including Live and Let Die (1973), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), and A View to a Kill (1985).
In recognition of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, The New York Public Library (NYPL) and Queens Public Library (QPL) have each released a limited edition library card that celebrates the genre and New York City’s central role in its rise as a global cultural movement that endures to this day. The…
The second tranche of a remarkable postal history collection, assembled by a former British journalist and presumed diplomat who gained access to some of the world’s most secretive countries during the Cold War era, comes up for sale at Chiswick Auctions this week.
A dozen original watercolour sketches by Beatrix Potter will be offered at Sotheby's on July 20 during Sotheby's Book Week in New York. Unseen for over 30 years, the twelve ink drawings on silk depict the tale of Potter's fourth children's book, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904),…
