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Franz Kafka's deep insecurity about his work is the focus of a letter coming to Sotheby's in which he describes his problems with writer's block.
A rare handwritten letter by Napoleon Bonaparte playfully criticizing his tutor's work is among 800 lots at RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale ending June 12.
At Tajan on Tuesday, June 5, 125 lots of Livres et Manuscrits, including one of two known autograph manuscript copies of Camus' L'Étranger (€500,000–800,000). The sale also includes a complete 100-volume set of the Jannink L'Art en Écrit (1991–2017), in a custom bookcase designed by Tadashi…
The first Hugo ever awarded and props from the 1953 movie War of the Worlds are among items celebrating the relationships between technology, literature, and film in the 20th Century at the latest Freeman’s | Hindman auction.
To mark the 2024 presidential election, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is presenting Picturing the Presidents: Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes from the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection, an exhibition featuring historic photographic portraits of 11 men who held the nation’s highest…
A new art book fair celebrating non-profit, collaborative, and interdisciplinary publishing, will take place in London this week.The inaugural Inventory Art Book Fair running June 7 - 9 at Cromwell Place, South Kensington, will be a celebration of artist publishing in the UK, bringing together…
UK-based Excalibur Auctions is offering two rare comics believed never to have been offered in the UK before at auction.
Highlights of Bonhams' Fine Books, Maps & Manuscripts online only sale running June 7 - 20 include:
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of When We Were Very Young, Lyon & Turnbull will present a complete deluxe set of the Pooh books in outstanding condition, each being one of a limited edition signed by both author A. A. Milne and illustrator E. H. Shepard.
A rare 1500 third German edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders on May 30.Originally authored by Hartmann Schedel, the Nuremberg Chronicle holds a significant place in printing history. This particular edition, published by Johann Schonsperger in Augsburg,…
