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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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
