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A first edition first printing of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has sold…
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The Jack Kerouac Center has released new architectural renderings by Boston-based Flansburgh Architects showing how Lowell’s former St. Jean Baptiste Church will look as a museum, performance venue and cultural center honoring the life and work of Jack Kerouac.
This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections advisor specializing in rare books and manuscripts as well as fine photography and prints.
The Chelsea Rare Book Fair returns to the Chelsea Old Town Hall on the Kings Road in London on October 30 and 31 with a wide range of UK and international booksellers.
A signed typed letter by J.R.R. Tolkien to a fan about the language in his recently published The Adventures of Tom Bombadil is among the items coming up for auction at Swann Galleries' autograph sale on November 8.
More than 70 Bibles and devotional works from from the Estate of Robert Funk will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions’ October 14 Rare Books sale.
A life-size bronze installation depicting Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson will be publicly unveiled next month after seven years of planning, fundraising, sculpting and fabrication.
The Surrealist Book: Tomorrow Lives in Mirrors at The Museum of Modern Art in New York will showcase the impact of artists’ books within the Surrealist movement. On view at MoMA from October 4 through January 23, 2027, the exhibition will feature a selection of rare volumes produced by…
A new catalogue from James Cummins Bookseller includes a previously unrecognized draft manuscript by Vita Sackville-West for A Note of Explanation, the miniature book she wrote for Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House at Windsor Castle and which has been cited as an inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.…
Part 1 of the Lawrence Klein collection at Hakes Auctions features a collection of vintage comic books and original comic book art by one of the industry’s most notable collectors and featuring original Todd McFarlane pen-and-ink artwork for Amazing Spider-Man #302 (Marvel Comics, July 1988), and…
Tickets for Hallowe'en and Christmas events at the Charles Dickens Museum in London go on sale on October 1 with one-man performances of Dickens’s stories by James Swanton and Dominic Gerrard.Nancy’s Murder and Other Horrifying Tales performed by Dominic Gerrard (October 28 and 29) focuses on the…
