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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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Just weeks ago, Everyman’s Library published a splendid new volume in its Pocket Poets series, Books and Libraries: Poems. The 272-page anthology, with gorgeous jacket art, includes such poets as Horace, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Borges, Angelou, and others, all paying homage to books and libraries.…
Runnemede, NJ -- Movie fans have a rare opportunity to bolster their film collections as vintage and unopened VHS tapes are up for sale as part of Goldin’s largest-ever Pop Culture Auction which opens today. Among the rare films in the auction are a 1974 copy of The Godfather Part II signed by Al…
The earliest known child’s letter to Santa Claus in Britain was sent in 1895 from a child in Lincolnshire addressed to ‘Father Christmas, The North Pole, G.P.O,’ but by the early 1900s thousands of letters were being sent annually, and in 1963 Postmaster General Reginald Bevins, head of the General…
The estate of fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld is being liquidated in a series of sales, both live and online, that began last week and continue into mid-December. There are many (many) Dior jackets, loads of Baccarat crystal, and three Rolls Royces. But since Lagerfeld was known for his immense…
Leyburn, North Yorkshire, England — An exceptionally rare 15th-century illuminated manuscript almanac, which was found in the back of a drawer, sold for £95,000 ($126,600) plus buyer’s premium in Tennants Auctioneers’ Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on 24th November. Having been part of a private…
Dallas — A first edition of Thomas Keneally's Schindler's Ark signed by Steven Spielberg, who turned it into a seven-time Oscar-winning motion picture. Copies of Tarzan novels inscribed by Edgar Rice Burroughs to his son Hulbert, for whom he drew adorable illustrations. A Shoeless Joe autographed…
A very busy week coming up: First up, the Music and Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts sale at Sotheby's London ends on Tuesday, November 30.
“Turn Every Page”: Inside the Robert A. Caro Archive, currently on view at the New-York Historical Society, is the first public exhibition drawn from the archive of the author whose award-winning works on Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson are regarded as masterpieces of modern biography and…
Dallas — One of the first public printings of the Bill of Rights will cross the auction block this month as part of Heritage Auctions' Dec. 9-10 Rare Books Signature® Auction.
Paris – One of the most important scientific autographs ever offered at auction: a 54-page manuscript written jointly by Albert Einstein and Michele Besso sold €11,656,560 / £9,803,667/ $13,156,521, quadrupling its pre-sale estimate, realising a new world auction for any science manuscript and the…
