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The Blake Cottage Trust has been awarded a £243,954 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund…
The only known set of unbound gathered sheets for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone…
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The Raab Collection has acquired a rare letter of George Washington that goes to the heart of the American Revolution and the spirit of the colonists to take up their own arms to fight off the oppressors. 
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A historic document signed by President Theodore Roosevelt, crucial to the construction of the Panama Canal, has sold for $49,711 at RR Auction's sale of presidential documents and artifacts.
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Quinn’s Auction Galleries will auction political memorabilia archive of Washington insider and Kennedy family confidante Melody Miller (1945-2022) online on February 18.
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A new exhibition commemorating the 700th anniversary of the oldest Spanish cookbook has opened at the University of Valencia in Spain.
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A new exhibition at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art explores the creativity of endpapers which have become an expanded artistic canvas in contemporary children’s publishing. 
Book Fairs
The Ephemera Society of America's flagship event next month will feature more than 10,000 items including advertisements, baseball cards, rare maps, playbills, banknotes, sheet music, luggage tags, and wood engravings.
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Swann Galleries' February 13 Fine Photographs sale features a selection of 20th century images capturing urban, rural, and social settings.
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San Francisco Center for the Book has announced its second national mentorship award in book arts for Summer 2025 with experienced mentors Julie Chen and Zach Clark who are committed to nurturing the next generation of book artists.With the support of the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation, SFCB will be…
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Better on Paper is a new exhibition that celebrates some of the thousands of newly acquired and previously unseen works of art on paper including prints, drawings, photographs, books, and other objects, acquired by the Davis Museum and the Wellesley College Library Special Collections in…
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The National Library of Scotland is marking its 100th birthday with a year-long programme of events and initiatives.   The holder of the largest collection of antiquarian books north of Cambridge, it is a ‘legal deposit’ library with the right to claim a copy of everything published…