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The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin will present Words and Wonder:…
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Organizers of next month's rare book fair at the Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture are working to accommodate booksellers displaced by the cancelation of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA) book fair in Pasadena.
A handwritten manuscript of the Declaration of Independence comes to auction next week at Christie's after initially being bought at a library sale.Discovered by a collector who purchased an incomplete set of 18th century Laws of New York at the sale, the plain book worth…
Tickets are now available to see three rare Magna Cartas at Durham Cathedral.From July 11 through November 2 visitors will be able to see the rare documents as part of a new exhibition, Magna Carta and the North.
Aubusson Weaves Tolkien is a new exhibition presented by the Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie which opens in March in Paris.Running March 21 through May 18, these tapestries will be exhibited at the Collège des Bernardins, a former Cistercian college and now a cultural center.
The Texas Booksellers’ Association (TBA) is organizing and presenting to the public, collectors, and bibliophiles the Dallas Antiquarian Book Fair.The event will be held June 20, 21, and 22, including a preview night. It will be limited to 75 exhibitors, 50 who are members of the ABAA and 25 non…
The debut of Black Cat on the cover of 1979’s The Amazing Spider-Man No. 194 has sold for $1,020,000 at Heritage Auctions to become the most valuable Spider-Man cover ever sold at auction.
Sotheby’s will offer a rare July 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence: The Essex Broadside in a standalone live auction on January 24.Attributed to Robert Luist Fowle of Exeter, this Goodspeed’s-Sang-Streeter copy is one of 13 contemporary broadsides of the Declaration of…
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) has announced that the 57th California International Antiquarian Book Fair has been cancelled.
At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, January 14, Early Printing, Americana, Architecture, etc., in 202 lots. Some expected highlights include a second issue copy of the 1854 Address to the Legislature of New-York, Adopted by the State Woman's Rights Convention ($600–900); a first edition of…
Vladimir Nabokov's controversial 1955 novel Lolita, inscribed to William James, Jr. and his wife Alice comes up at Christie's' latest Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana this week with a particularly unusual inscription.
