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Salisbury Cathedral has received an early Christmas present from Friends of the Nations’ Libraries…
The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments which dates to the Late Roman-Byzantine…
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Posters from classic movies will go under the hammer next week at Heritage Auctions including Boris Karloff's final appearance as Victor Frankenstein’s monster, and Orson Welles's 1936 'Voodoo Macbeth'.Highlights of the December 2-3 Movie Posters auction include: * the Style A one sheet for…
Essex Wildlife Trust plans to turn the Tudor longhouse home and estate of the author of the groundbreaking 1969 Akenfield Ronald Blythe into a retreat for writers, artists, and naturalists.Bottengoms in the landscape of Wormingford in the Stour Valley on the Essex-Suffolk border, was previously…
The largest archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished works to come to auction will go under the hammer at Doyle including his favourite typewriter, inscribed books, original manuscripts, assocation copies, letters, and ephemera such as his scarf.
Freeman’s | Hindman will present the first of several installments of Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller at its New York saleroom on December 5. The auction will feature more than 250 lots from the well known book dealer and…
The Morgan Library & Museum has acquired the earliest manuscript with color illustrations of the poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, more famously known as The Night Before Christmas, by Clement Clarke Moore.
An original set of handwritten lyrics by John Lydon (also known as Johnny Rotten) from the Sex Pistols' 1977 debut album Never Mind the Bollocks have sold for $82,638 at RR Auction's Marvels of Modern Music sale.
Jane Austen’s House will premiere a mini-documentary Spotlight on The Watsons on YouTube later this week.
Peter Harrington will offer what is believed to be the largest and most diverse collection of early editions and translations of Quotations from Chairman Mao, better known as the Little Red Book, for £1m at Firsts Hong Kong (December 6-8).
On Tuesday, November 26, 226 lots of Hunting, Fishing, Travel & Exploration at New England Book Auctions, including one of 105 numbered copies of Dean Sage's The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fishing (1888), estimated at $10,000–15,000, and a deluxe copy of Roland Clark's Gunner's Dawn (1937),…
The Dune Bible volume from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s epic unmade Dune project features in the Christie’s online-only Science Fiction and Fantasy sale (November 28 - December 12) which also includes vintage movie posters.
