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Remember Me: American Carved Stone Books from the Ian Berke Collection will explore the area where…
Heroes: The British invasion of American comics opens at the Cartoon Museum in London next month…
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Nearly 900 lots are featured in RR Auction's upcoming Apil Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale, featuring nearly 900 lots of items from the 19th and 20th centuries.Highlights include two Abraham Lincoln items. The first is a rare Lincoln check dated February 16, 1859, payable to Johnson &…
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Sarah Gordon’s new play Underdog: The Other Other Brontë is an irreverent retelling of the lives and legend of English literature’s famed Brontë sisters which opens tonight at the National Theatre's Dorfman theatre in London. 
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The lineup at the famous 1969 Altamont Festival included the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, and Santana, but the act most closely associated with Altamont is the Rolling Stones. The rarest piece of historic memorabilia tied to this moment is the event poster…
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Type Punch Matrix will feature more than two dozen items from the life and career of Sylvia Plath at the 64th annual New York Antiquarian Book Fair, April 4 - 7 at the Park Avenue Armory.
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At the Mountains of Madness, written on the back of letters and other paraphenalia by H. P. Lovecraft, has been reproduced for the first time by SP Books. The manuscript also reveals how H.P. Lovecraft was seen among his friends, including their nicknames for him, and includes typed letters…
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A rare and perfectly graded Steve Jobs-signed Apple Computer business card from circa 1983 has fetched $181,183 at RR Auction who believe it to be a world record price achieved for a signed business card.
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A rare first edition and author’s presentation copy of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species from 1859 has sold for £305,200, over double its estimate, at Bonhams.
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On view in the Grolier Club’s ground floor gallery in New York from May 2 through July 27, Hardly Harmless Drudgery: Landmarks in English Lexicography will feature more than 100 objects including the first English dictionary by a woman and a preview of draft entries to be included in…
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Jon Bogdanove is auctioning his drawing that told the world Superman would die at Heritage Auction's April 4-7 Comics & Comic Art auction.Bogdanove's original artwork - which featured the first appearance of the character called Doomsday - never appeared in a comic book but did make the cover…
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Denis Kitchen will bring 275 works of original comic art to Heritage Auction’s April 4-7 Comics & Comic Art sale including work ranging from Li’l Abner originals by Al Capp to Spirit offerings from Will Eisner.