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This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections…
A first edition first printing of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has sold…
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The Grolier Club will open an exhibition later this year telling the story of Black people in America from early writings by free Black people through the Black Arts Movement and beyond. Running December 3 through February 20, 2027, Black Brilliance: An American Chronicle will…
An Edgar Allan Poe carte de visite from the early 1860s taken four days after the poet’s attempted suicide in 1848 features in University Archives’ online Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Books & Photographs auction on October 21.The sale contains the second installment, more than 60 lots, from…
A handwritten letter by Anton Chekhov in Russian about the success of The Seagull and his consequent fame leads RR Auction’s Fine Autographs & Artifacts online sale which closes October 14.
Nine out of 10 people who have visited a physical bookshop in the last six months say the experience improved their mood, says a new poll from the Booksellers Association.More than three-quarters of those polled added that bookshops helped them switch off from social media and screens, and a…
Three books by John Dos Passos and finely bound by Hazel Dreis will go under the hammer at PBA Galleries' October 15 Fine Bindings auction.The mixed set (New York
, Harcourt, Brace and Company
, 1930-1936) with inscriptions on the title page from Dos Passos for Chester Arthur and Esther Arthur…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Dr. Irene Malfatto of Bruce McKittrick Rare Books in Pennsylvania:How did you get started in rare books?
The two-bedroom flat in Chelsea where Agatha Christie lived and wrote several of her most famous works is on the market with Sandfords for £1.95m ($2.6m).Christie bought 48 Swan Court in London in 1948 and wrote Witness for the Prosecution, Crooked House, and part of The Mousetrap there. It is also…
Fire and Gold: The Art of Alchemy (1450–1850) is a new permanent exhibition in the newly reopened Fisher Gallery at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia exploring the art, science, and history of alchemy. It draws on the museum and library’s extensive collection of rare books and…
A page of printed text hidden for more than a century in an uncatalogued scrapbook at Trinity College's Watkinson Library in Hartford, Connecticut, has been identified as a previously unrecorded 15th century printing connected to the circle of Johannes Gutenberg.It has been identified it as a leaf…
Dickensian London: The Magic Lantern City is a new exhibition exploring the city which inspired Charles Dickens.
