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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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Nate D. Sanders Auctions will auction an exceptionally rare presidential pardon signed by President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy on November 30. It is dated November 14, 1963, eight days before the assassination of President Kennedy.
If you are starting to feel a bit Christmassy, here is the perfect beginning to the season, an online conversation and Q&A about John Masefield's festive classic The Box of Delights.
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The Grolier Club will unravel the history of detective literature in its new exhibition Whodunit? Key Books in Detective Fiction, on view from November 30 through February 10, 2024 at its New York location.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Madeline Lafuse who received an 'Honorable Mention' in this year's Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.Where are you from/where do you live?
The rare vellum copy of the most celebrated legal document in the English-speaking world was published in 1733 by the English designer, engraver, and cartographer John Pine (1690-1756). It will be offered by Chiswick Auctions on November 29 by a private vendor with an…
Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School (FMDG) has donated its entire Braille music catalog, the second-largest collection of Braille music in the country, to The New York Public Library’s Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library. Through this donation, the Heiskell Library will make…
A complete copy of Edward S Curtis’s seminal The North American Indian, arguably the most complete ethnographic record of the native peoples of North America ever assembled, topped the two days of Fine Books & Manuscript auctions at Hindman.
A Washington Cathedral program book from March 31, 1968, inscribed and signed by the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr in the final days of his life has sold at Hakes for $28,556.Dr King delivered his final Sunday sermon at that service and according to Hake’s research no other MLK autograph…
Second Story Books, the oldest used and rare bookstore in the Washington DC metro area, announces a unique way to build your library or collection: Searching the collection of others for unique works on particular subjects.The new platform, available through their website, presents…
At Bonhams New York on Tuesday, November 21, 223 lots of Fine Books and Manuscripts, which includes the Pauline and Ozzy Fletcher Collection of Whitmaniana as lots 125–152. A November 23, 1783 letter from from Thomas Mifflin as president of the United States Congress to Jonathan Trumbull as…
