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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 Charles Dickens Museum today reveals the author's views on summer in the city, his favourite holidays and ingenious efforts to cool off during a hot British summer. Running through September 27, a new display in the study at Dickens’s London home at 48 Doughty Street, now the Charles…
A near complete run of The Wipers Times trench newspaper written and printed by soldiers during the First World War has sold for £7,000 in the Books, Maps and Manuscripts sale at Tennants Auctioneers.
An important African Americana collection has nearly tripled its pre-sale estimate at the latest Freeman’s Books & Manuscripts auction.
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad by Jeff Jarvis
The Grolier Club's forthcoming Henry Wessel – Photographs and Books exhibition will feature more than 65 photographs including Wessel’s Incidents and Traffic portfolios in their entirety, as well as highlights from Wessel’s full body of work from more than four decades.
The Pickwick Papers, A. A. Milne's Pooh books, Jonathan Swift, and Samuel Johnson's Dictionary will all go under the hammer at Gorringe’s next month.
The York National Book Fair returns to the Knavesmire Suite at York Racecourse on September 12 and 13Established in 1974, the
York Book Fair is regarded as the largest rare and antiquarian book fair in the U.K and Europe. Held over two days, more than 200
leading booksellers offering more…
Highlights from PBA Galleries' August 20 Fine Press & Bindings auction include:* The Works of Lord Byron edited by Richard Henry StoddardLyceum Edition published by Francis A. Niccolls & Co (London and Boston, 1900), 16 volumes. Engraved frontispieces with tissue guards, buckram boards,…
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.
An extremely rare 1781 promissory note printed and twice signed by Benjamin Franklin to arrange repayment of a French loan that helped finance the American Revolution leads the Freeman's August 20 Books & Manuscripts auction.
