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A first edition first printing of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has sold…
Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has unveiled two exhibitions focusing…
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Divine Inspiration: The Legacy of the St. Francis Missal is now on view at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore focusing on a 12th-century missal believed by Franciscans to be a relic of touch of St. Francis of Assisi. The missal is rarely displayed due to its fragility, and is accompanied by…
An archive chronicling more than six decades of life in Palestine has been saved from the risk of destruction and preserved at the Universities of Edinburgh and Exeter for study, teaching and research.The archive, comprising thousands of pages from diaries, personal documents and digital records,…
The Wordsworth Trust, which operates Wordsworth Grasmere and Dove Cottage, has acquired three letters written by William Wordsworth.
The Sunderland Collection of world maps has announced the creation of Ex Carta, a sister collection dedicated to fictional and world-building cartography that spans more than 700 years across over 160 maps from 1506 to the present day.
The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair will return to the Hynes Convention Center in Boston’s Back Bay, running November 6-8, 2026.Sanctioned by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the three-day event will welcome 110…
Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire, has acquired a portrait miniature of Jane Austen’s close friend and mentor Mrs Anne Lefroy.
The Missouri Botanical Garden has acquired a rare first edition of Mark Catesby’s The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands.
Two-part September 23 event will also feature Matisse, Milne, Vonnegut and Cather; rare-book consignments accepted through September 9
A typed and signed Ernest Hemingway letter discussing his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls including his description, "...when you are writing the best book you ever wrote..." will go under the hammer at Nate D. Sanders tomorrow.
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…
