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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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The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair (BIABF) returns to the Hynes Convention Center in Downtown Boston, October 27-29, 2023. Celebrating its 45th year, this three-day event features fine and rare printed materials from around the globe, including illuminated manuscripts, modern first…
One of Dublin’s biggest celebations, the Bram Stoker Festival is back with more than 50,000 people expected to enjoy activities across the city from October 27 to October 30.Highlights include:
Anchored around some of its most acclaimed medieval manuscripts, The Morgan Library & Museum will present Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality, an exhibition examing the economic revolution in medieval Europe and charting the expanding role and perception of money during that period.
Bonhams New York holds a sale titled John Steinbeck: The Mary Steinbeck Dekker Family Collection, featuring 107 lots of rare Steinbeckiana collected by the author's sister Mary and her son-in-law David Heyler. Rating the top estimate at $250,000–350,000 is a large lot of nearly 400 pieces of…
Hindman will offer 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 in its Fine Books from the Dorros Family Collection sale, the first in a pair of back-to-back Books…
When the Folger Theatre begins performances of The Winter’s Tale on November 4, ticket holders will be greeted by Anke Neumann’s ethereal and symbolic 15-foot-tall hanging sculpture, Cloud of Imagination.Installed in August at the Folger Shakespeare Library, it connects the newly constructed east…
Unseen photos from Bournemouth’s 1910 International Aviation Meeting, during which Rolls-Royce co-founder Charles Rolls plunged to his death when his plane broke up mid-air, go under the hammer with Richard Winterton Auctioneers on November 6. The Edwardian album documenting one of Britain’s…
The Epistola de insulis nuper inventis, the earliest obtainable edition of Christopher Columbus’s letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella announcing his “discovery” of the American continent, has been sold for $3,922,000, 392 percent of its low estimate.
A new exhibition will showcase the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of ancient Egyptian manuscripts bearing spells from the Book of the Dead.The objects in 'The Egyptian Book of the Dead' exhibition, which originally belonged to the burials of eight individuals, are all drawn from the Getty Museum…
Early printings, illustrated books, Presidential autographs, and a Poe thriller go under the hammer at Quinn’s Rare Book, Autograph and Print Auction on October 26. The scientific and historical section includes several volumes on American exploration. A complete set of the Pacific Railroad…
