Fine Books News: Recent
The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archive of film star…
Sotheby’s' Visions of America auction series this month is led by its Fine…
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Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on this week:
This week's entry appears in the Fine Books and Manuscripts auction running from this week until November 12 at Bonhams which features an E. H. Shepard presentation copy of When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne.
The recent Bonhams auction Elegance of the Eternal: The Collection of Anne Rice featured more than 200 objects from the home and personal library of the prolific supernatural and Gothic historical fiction writer.
Freeman’s | Hindman’s Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana auction later this month features around 350 lots of works of Americana and Natural History.
The 32nd annual Antiquarian Booksellers' Association's Chelsea Rare Book Fair opens today at Chelsea Old Town Hall on London's King's Road with a selection of rare books, maps, manuscripts, and ephemera from a wide range of 80 international exhibitors. Running today 2pm - 7pm (tickets £10) and…
A public sculpture of the poet John Keats has been unveiled this week close to his birthplace on Moorgate in the City of London on what would have been his 229th birthday.Keats was the son of an ostler at a City inn and livery stable called The Swan and Hoop, which stood a few dozen yards south of…
Highlights from The Kelmscott Bookshop's latest Halloween catalogue include:The Headless Horseman (Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 2016)
Curator Dr. Robinson McClellan has uncovered a previously unknown waltz written in the hand of Frédéric Chopin in The Morgan Library & Museum’s collection, the first discovery of an unknown work by Chopin since the late 1930s.
Heritage Auctions’ sale of Christine Farrell’s collection of DC Comics titles plus original works of art has beaten its estimates by making $5,261,617.“Christine’s journey to gather these iconic comics has gifted us not only a legendary collection but also a moment to celebrate the rich legacy of…
The rare 1626 large wall map of the Nordic countries Orbis Arctoi Nova et Accurata Delineatio comes to auction online at Stockholms Auktionsverk on December 10–11.The map, measuring approximately 2m x 3m, symbolizes the rising power of the Swedish Empire during the reign of King Gustavus Adolphus.…
