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A pristine first edition paperback copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has…
Heritage Auctions' June 5–6 Pulp Magazines sale will feature an exceptionally rare color variant of…
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Rain is the subject of the National Library of Scotland’s forthcoming major exhibition including a copy of 18th century Scottish scientist James Hutton’s Theory of Rain and rain in the poetry of Robert Burns.
Lake District-based autioneers Mitchell's will offer a major auction of furnishings from English poet William Wordsworth's final home Rydal Mount later this month.
The 2026 McKnight Book Artist Fellows are artist, photographer, and book artist Christopher Selleck and artist, writer, andn educator Brooks Turner.Christopher's interdisciplinary practice explores masculinity, identity, and vulnerability through photographs, sculpture, and intimate book-based…
Rare Book School at the University of Virginia has revealed its public summer lecture series focusing on book history, bibliography, and print culture.* June 1: The 2026 Kress Foundation Art of the Book in Europe LectureAquatint Travel Books and the Haptic Picturesque with Douglas Fordham,…
George Washington's emergence from young surveyor to army commander and President is charted in 23 signed letters in Heritage Auctions' John H. Freund Americana Collection sale on June 19.Among them is a land survey completed when Washington was 19, a 1776 account of the seizure of Dorchester…
Sir Alec Guinness’s annotated copy of Hamlet, Virginia Woolf's copy of Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd, and Beethoven's autograph sketches for the overture Die Weihe des Hauses will go under the hammer at Sotheby's next month.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Michael Alexandratos, who splits time between Sydney, Australia and Athens, Greece. Michael won the 2025 Australian National Book Collecting Prize for collectors aged 35 and younger.Where are you from / where do you live?
The top lot in Christie's' July 8 Valuable Books & Manuscripts sale is a medieval illuminated manuscript of the Old French Arthurian tradition circa 1290-1315 with an estimate of £1.2m–£1.5m.The Clermont-Tonnerre Grail codex, which is in a 17th century green velvet binding and known as the…
A signed 1885 contract between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show has sold for $168,213 at RR Auction’s The Western Americana auction of Jochen Zeitz.The one-page agreement signed June 6, 1885, formalized Sitting Bull’s appearance in the ‘Buffalo Bill Wild West Show’ for a four-…
The New York Public Library has announced the acquisition of the professional and personal archive of journalist and bestselling author Gay Talese.
