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A major National Lottery Heritage Fund grant will help finance the opening of the Quentin Blake…
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has made an award of $25,000 to San Francisco Center for…
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Ronald Reagan's copy of Don Quixote is among numerous presidential lots coming to auction on May 15 at University Archives' Rare Signed Autographs, Manuscripts, Books & Memorabilia sale.
One of JK Rowling’s seven original manuscripts for The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a book of fairy tales penned by the author in 2007, will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s next month with a $250,000 – $350,000 estimate.
There are a handful of books in the Freeman's | Hindman sale of The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright on Tuesday, May 7, mostly presentation copies but a handful of books with her annotations.
Early printed books, literature, and artist books featured in Swann Galleries’ latest Fine Books auction which was dominated by editions of Don Quixote. Leading the sale was a 1608 third Madrid Cuesta edition, sold for $106,250. Other editions of note included:
Sculptor Hans K Clausen is to build a living sculpture of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four which will be shown on the Hebridean island of Jura in Scotland where Orwell wrote it during the 1940s.
A rundown of the top ten highest selling sales on AbeBooks during the first quarter of this year.1. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War - $18,200A four-volume set, published in 1887, containing firsthand accounts from more than 266 authors, including Union and Confederate generals. Also includes…
A touching wartime letter written by Elizabeth II as a young princess is among the highlights of the Autographs and Memorabilia at Chiswick Auctions.The letter, written from Windsor Castle on August 26, 1940 to Lady Aston, includes a signed photograph of the castle that the future queen had…
The original watercolor illustration for the cover of J.K. Rowling's 1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, comes to auction at Sotheby’s in June with a $400,000 - $600,000.
Highlights from Peter Harrington's selection of items at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair running until May 5 include:* Seven Pillars of Wisdom: The Triumph by T.E. Lawrence (1926)One of the few purposely incomplete copies of the subscribers’ edition, presented by Lawrence to brother-in-…
RR Auction is offering a collection of John F. Kennedy memorabilia this month featuring nearly 800 lots which also includes rare items from George Washington, Samuel Clemens, Marie Antoinette, and Henry VIII.
