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More than six decades after it was written, a handwritten letter from Brian Jones to Charlie Watts in which Jones attempts to recruit the drummer to join the fledgling group that would become The Rolling Stones will go under the hammer for the first time.
A page from Astérix the Legionary featuring Obélix’s first attempt at courting Falbala topped the Albert Uderzo section at Heritage Auctions’ latest comic art auction, selling for $206,250.
The Vancouver Art Gallery and Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECU) have announced a five-year partnership significantly expanding public access to one of British Columbia’s most unique research collections.
A group of Russian émigré archives concerning Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna and their networks in exile will come up at Bonhams Paris tomorrow.Lots 239–249 in The Classics sale include correspondence, photographs, administrative and financial papers…
Christie’s will present more than 350 photographs from the Roger Therond Collection across three sales taking place in Paris on November 13 and 14, and online November 6-17.
The bestselling author of a new novella featuring Charles Dickens and the Charles Dickens Museum will be in conversation with the author's great-great-great-granddaughter next week.In The Case of the Christmas Card by Elly Griffiths, a few days before Christmas Dickens is transported to London in…
Highlights from the collection of Maurice F. Neville featuring association copies, manuscripts and letters will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions on November 18.Neville's love of books and literature began when he was growing up on a farm in Indiana. As an adult, as well as assembling a…
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.
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.Return of the Bookseller Diarist by Shaun BythellThe fourth in Bythell’s diary series which started with The Diary of a Bookseller, and marking 25 years since he took over The Bookshop in…
The Strand Magazine is publishing a rediscovered work written by Harry Houdini to mark 100 years since his death, a lively account of the magicians who came before him.
