Decorations and holiday trees inspired by poems, traditional tales, and children’s books are on show at this year's Yuletide at Winterthur which runs through January 4 in Delaware.

A complete three-volume set of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in first editions, first impressions has been sold by Heritage Auctions for $250,000.

Christ Church Oxford and the Bodleian Libraries have become joint owners of an exceptionally rare first edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the most important of only 22 known surviving copies of the first and subsequently withdrawn edition.

The book collection of silver and antiques expert Michael Baggott is going to auction at Richard Winterton Auctioneers with a special timed sale over Christmas.Catalogued across more than 150 lots, the library is a treasure trove of knowledge on 500 years of silver, silversmiths and hallmarks, with…


The National Maritime Museum has opened a display to mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth this week Including manuscripts relating to her youngest brothers Francis and Charles Austen, examining Jane’s connections to the Royal Navy and the influence her brothers had in her works.

RR Auction's music-focused December sale features a range of signed albums and historic documents including a rare one-page autograph letter signed “Leonard” written March 31, 1967, from Buffalo, New York, to Cohen’s girlfriend and muse Marianne Ihlen.

Five years ago at the age of 70 when the pandemic forced the cancellation of his many shows, veteran show promoter Marvin Getman championed the concept of virtual book fairs and virtual antiques shows. 

Leading Bonhams’ 'white glove' Spencer Tracy: Collection of a Screen Icon auction was an advance issue presentation copy of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway which soared to more than 55 times its estimate when it sold for $83,050.  

Coinciding with the recent publication of Charlie Mackesy's second book Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm, Bonhams will hold a special auction of new works by the artist.

The second installment of Stories from the Library opens on December 13 when visitors will be able to enjoy rarely seen materials from across The Huntington Library's collections including Octavia E. Butler’s notebooks and the first schoolbook printed in California.