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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 two-bedroom flat in Chelsea where Agatha Christie lived and wrote several of her most famous works is on the market with Sandfords for £1.95m ($2.6m).Christie bought 48 Swan Court in London in 1948 and wrote Witness for the Prosecution, Crooked House, and part of The Mousetrap there. It is also…
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.
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.
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.
A signed typed letter by J.R.R. Tolkien to a fan about the language in his recently published The Adventures of Tom Bombadil is among the items coming up for auction at Swann Galleries' autograph sale on November 8.
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.
