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The library of American-born poet Ruth Fainlight and her late husband the writer Alan Sillitoe…
A new exhibition opening today at the London home of Charles Dickens brings together the women he…
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Kansas City, MO – The Henry Fitz Jr. Archive of Photographic History, an extremely rare group of early daguerreotypes and related material from the family of pioneering practitioner Henry Fitz, was purchased at auction in Cincinnati on November 15. It includes what is believed to be one of the…
Los Angeles – Fans and admirers of the legendary stand-up comic Don Rickles may bid on personal belongings from his beautifully-appointed Los Angeles estate, which he shared with his wife Barbara, on Thursday, January 13 at 10 a.m. PDT. The live online sale will feature assorted “Toy Story”…
The Collins Memorial Library at the University of Puget Sound in Washington is pushing the boundaries of art and science. The brains behind its current exhibition, Science Stories—library director Jane Carlin, Evergreen State College professor emerita Lucia Harrison, and Puget Sound professor of…
Chicago – Hindman Auctions achieved more than $4.2 million across three days of Fine Art auctions. Across the December 13th American and European Art, the December 14th Post War & Contemporary Art and the December 15th Prints & Multiples auctions, bidders from 32 countries and 42 states…
Boston — A Gone With the Wind shooting script presented to Leslie Howard by David O. Selznick sold for $22,688 according to Boston-based RR Auction.
The front cover and spine are beautifully gilt-stamped, "Gone With the Wind, Screen Play," with the recipient's name stamped at the bottom right of…
A very quiet couple of weeks to close out December and 2021 in the auction rooms. Just a trio of sales to keep an eye on through the end of the month:
In the new book, My Cookbook Passion: Culinary History and Adventure in Exploring My Personal Collection (Gaudium, $49.99), author Pamela Kure Grogan combines vintage recipes with a heaping spoonful of bibliophilia.
London – Earlier this year, Sotheby’s announced that the manuscripts, first editions, letters and bindings that make up the legendary Honresfield Library -- assembled with passion by self-made Victorian industrialists William and Alfred Law at the turn of the 20th century -- were to be offered at…
London – The only Darwin Microscope to have ever been offered at auction was sold in Christie’s Valuable Books & Manuscripts auction on 15 December 2021, achieving £598,500 / $791,816 / €702,041. The Gould-type microscope by Cary (estimate: £250,000 – 350,000) was gifted by Charles Darwin (1809…
As we noted in our autumn 2020 article, “Beethoven at 250,” published on the occasion of the composer’s semiquincentennial, the British Library holds one of the top Ludwig van Beethoven collections in the world. Special pieces from that collection are now on exhibit and include such personal items…
