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Sotheby's will run the second installment of its Reason and Revolution auction devoted to the…
Three days after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion collapsed in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy…
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The winner of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize is Darby Ronning for The Alldera Collection: Feminist Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century.This is the last iteration of the annual prize which was launched in 2017 for American women book collectors aged 30 and younger.
The British Library has announced it has acquired the archive of novelist, short story writer, and literary critic Dame A. S. Byatt.Best known for her Booker prize-winning novel Possession: A Romance (1990), Byatt's archive is one of the most significant contemporary literary additions to the…
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.
A first edition first printing of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has sold for $400,000 at Heritage Auctions, the second-highest auction price for the title behind the $471,000 record Heritage established in December 2021.
Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has unveiled two exhibitions focusing on the experimental arts magazine Fire!!, and the nonprofit literary organization Cave Canem.
The Christie's online Rare Books and Manuscripts sale running October 27 through November 5 will feature engravings by Dürer and 20th century manuscripts by Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Boulez, and André Breton.A collage-letter by Breton addressed to Louis Aragon in 1918 (estimate: €30,000-€40,000)…
A handwritten letter by Albert Einstein filled with mathematical equations examining covariance and invariance in Hamiltonian mechanics sold for $71,811 at RR Auction's latest Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale.
Opening next month at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, Plain Things Wonders marks 400 years since the publication of Francis Bacon’s influential experimental science text Sylva Sylvarum.
A working manuscript of Walt Whitman’s Civil War poem, working drafts of Dylan Thomas's work, and a cache of Leonard Cohen’s early poetry feature in Peter Harrington's new catalogue Poetry: The Heart of the Matter.Highlights include:
Boundless: The Book as Art opens tomorrow at The New Bedford Whaling Museum celebrating creativity in traditional book arts, including printing, typography, illustration, bookbinding, papermaking, and graphic design. On view through February 15, 2027, the exhibition includes more than 200 rare…
