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The winner of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize is Darby Ronning for The Alldera…
The British Library has announced it has acquired the archive of novelist, short story writer, and…
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The debut of Black Cat on the cover of 1979’s The Amazing Spider-Man No. 194 has sold for $1,020,000 at Heritage Auctions to become the most valuable Spider-Man cover ever sold at auction.
Sotheby’s will offer a rare July 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence: The Essex Broadside in a standalone live auction on January 24.Attributed to Robert Luist Fowle of Exeter, this Goodspeed’s-Sang-Streeter copy is one of 13 contemporary broadsides of the Declaration of…
Memorabilia from the much-loved British comedian Eric Morecambe’s career exceeded expectations at this weekend's dedicated Hansons auction at the Burton Albion Pirelli Stadium.
A copy of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer produced by the esteemed Kelmscott Press in 1896 has been sold by RR Auction for $68,750.
Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire will kick off the celebrations for Austen’s 250th birthday year with the opening of a new exhibition opening January 22 and running through 2025.
Rare Book School at the University of Virginia's 2025 schedule includes more than 40 classes, featuring online courses and in-person possibilities plus two new partner institutions, the University of Michigan and Oxford University's Bodleian Library which marks RBS's first international…
The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art (SVMA) is to hold an exhibition of 40 contemporary handcrafted artists' books inspired by Japanese aesthetics with the majority of pieces coming from Japan.
FrielDays, the five-year project celebrating one of Ireland’s greatest writers, Brian Friel (1929-2015), is to feature an annual strand of special birthday events inspired by the playwright.Each year, the birthday events will happen around Friel’s two birth dates – January 9 and 10 – to reflect the…
The Grolier Club will explore the singular wit of American literary legend Mark Twain in the new exhibition A First-Class Fool: Mark Twain and Humor. On view from January 15 through April 5, 2025, the exhibition examines the work of Samuel Langhorne Clemens who crafted the “Mark Twain”…
Surrealist and fashion photographer, model and pioneering war correspondent, Lee Miller (1907-1977) was a force of nature who had an exceptional career. Yet, for a long time, it remained hidden – even from her son – with all of her negatives and photographs stored away in the attic at her home,…
