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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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Sotheby's' auction dedicated solely to all four Shakespeare Folios will mark the first time they have been offered as a single lot since 1989.
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Inscribed first edition books by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, and more than 35 association copies as well as autograph letters and original artworks created for some of his most famous stories are going under the hammer at Bonhams' online auction running until April 29.
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The Reading Agency’s State of the Nation in Adult Reading 2025 report released for World Book Day today indicates a growing reading crisis among adults who report distraction as one of the most common barriers to reading for pleasure in the UK. According to select findings from its upcoming…
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More than 100 works by artists who inspired illustrator Maurice Sendak as well as almost 30 original works by Sendak himself will go under the hammer at Christie's.Maurice Sendak, Artist, Collector, Connoisseur includes a live auction on June 10 which would have been Sendak’s 97th birthday, and an…
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An original hand-edited manuscript leaf by Henry David Thoreau for his work Cape Cod will be offered by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on April 24, 2025. 
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The Morgan Library & Museum will open A Celebration: Acquisitions in Honor of the Morgan’s Centennial, an exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Pierpont Morgan Library as a public institution on May 9.
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Author, artist, and designer Edward Gorey created work that has permeated both our commercial and cultural worlds and a showcase of his 50-year career at Texas A&M University’s Cushing Memorial Library & Archives is running through September 17.
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This year's Lyell Lectures will be given by Professor Leah Price at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford and via Zoom. The series will look at how Victorians and their servants interacted with books and their respective reading lives.
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A broadside announcing martial law during the 1921 Tulsa Race massacre will be offered in Heritage Auctions' April 25-26 Americana & Political auction.
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A new exhibition at the Grolier Club will examine the verbal and visual qualities of experimental poetry presented by publishers of small independent presses.