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Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac will explore the writer’s personal life from…
After its cancellation last year following the Los Angeles fires, the California International…
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I was in York for this year's YABS, the York Antiquarian Book Seminar. Now in its ninth year, it is modelled on the highly successful Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (generally known as CABS, and now based in Minnesota), which has been running for over 40 years.
Stockholms Auktionsverk's upcoming auction features more than 300 items dating back to the 15th century including maps, travelogues, and numerous titles focusing on the wonders of cooking from the collection of Inga-Lill Skoog.A total of 86 items from her library on the theme of food and husbandry…
Charles William Pressler and A.B. Langermann’s 1879 Map of the State of Texas, one of the most significant and rarest maps of Texas ever printed, is regarded as the first truly accurate map of Texas.This the sole copy in a private collection - there are only three known copies - sold for $705,…
At ALDE on Monday, December 4, 421 lots from the Bibliothèque Gastronomique Daniel Morcette, including a 1497 Strasbourg edition of the Ortus Sanitatis (€15,0
I bade farewell to the Captain today, writes slang lexicographer and author Jonathon Green. Captain Francis Grose, militia officer, antiquarian and slang collector. We have been sharing a home for some years, but it had become time to let him move on. Others requested his presence. I am ever-older…
A new exhibition will explore the lasting influence of Geoffrey Chaucer and chart the influcence of the unconventional poet known as the ‘Father of English Literature’ from his earliest known manuscripts up to present-day interpretations of his work.
The Raab Collection has discovered and is offering for sale a previously unknown and defining statement in the hand of Albert Einstein in which the world-renowned scientist reveals the real reason to pursue learning and knowledge is for its own sake: “The greatest value of knowledge lies in…
Sotheby’s is offering an exceedingly rare piece of Jane Austen history, a copy of Isaac D'Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature, a popular work from the late 18th and early 19th century containing anecdotes about historical persons and events, unusual books, and the habits of…
RR Auction's Marvels of Modern Music auction features more than 250 items including Led Zeppelin autographs, art by Bob Dylan, and Jim Morrison's handwritten lyrics for The Doors' song L'America.
The Portico Library in Manchester has successfully received support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for its project Reuniting the Portico Library, Uniting People.
