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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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Chicago — Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce this 765 lot sale to be held on Saturday, November 20th starting at 10am. The event will be held online and live streamed, with a limited number of bidders physically allowed in the gallery as determined by current Illinois public health…
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San Marino, CA —The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired the archive of acclaimed novelist and travel writer Pico Iyer, author of such bestsellers as The Art of Stillness and The Open Road. The acquisition is a substantial addition to The…
Reno, NV – An exceedingly rare First Folio single play “fragment” of William Shakespeare’s The First Part of Henry the Fourth, published in 1623, will be offered during Holabird Western Americana Collections’ Autumn Splendor Western Americana Auction, slated for October 28th-November 1st. The First…
Washington, D.C. — A new exhibition at the Library of Congress explores how comic books have permeated popular entertainment and influenced U.S. culture, highlighting selections from the Stephen A. Geppi Collection that was generously donated to the national library in 2018.
Paris – Christie’s is thrilled to announce the sale of an exceptional document which will be offered on 22 November as part of the "Rare Books and Manuscripts" sale: one of the very few known copies of the Dune storyboard. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s filmic adaptation of the pioneering science-fiction…
Los Angeles, CA / Nashville, TN – Julien’s Auctions announced the launch of the exclusive, online charity auction Music Health Alliance Second Annual Handwritten Lyrics Auction at juliensauctions.com. The auction will start closing in real time and in lot order for live bidding at 11:00 a.m.…
It’s October! Time to check in with “Weird Historian” (and book collector) Marc Hartzman.
London — Fitzrovia Gallery, London, is delighted to announce a joint exhibition by the acclaimed British artists Liza Campbell and Jolyon Fenwick, to run from the 25th to the 31st of October. Entitled Life’s Too Short to Live in Black and White, the presentation is comprised of a new work by…
London – On 15 December 2021, Christie’s Valuable Books & Manuscripts auction will present the Darwin Family Microscope (estimate: £250,000 – 350,000), as part of Christie’s Classic Week. With direct provenance from Charles Darwin (1809-1882), the Gould-type microscope by Cary was gifted by…
