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An archive of correspondence relating to the Kennedy political dynasty is expected to sell for £2,…
The final draft of the I Have a Dream speech given by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28…
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Two-part September 23 event will also feature Matisse, Milne, Vonnegut and Cather; rare-book consignments accepted through September 9
A typed and signed Ernest Hemingway letter discussing his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls including his description, "...when you are writing the best book you ever wrote..." will go under the hammer at Nate D. Sanders tomorrow.
The Charles Dickens Museum today reveals the author's views on summer in the city, his favourite holidays and ingenious efforts to cool off during a hot British summer. Running through September 27, a new display in the study at Dickens’s London home at 48 Doughty Street, now the Charles…
A near complete run of The Wipers Times trench newspaper written and printed by soldiers during the First World War has sold for £7,000 in the Books, Maps and Manuscripts sale at Tennants Auctioneers.
An important African Americana collection has nearly tripled its pre-sale estimate at the latest Freeman’s Books & Manuscripts auction.
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad by Jeff Jarvis
The Grolier Club's forthcoming Henry Wessel – Photographs and Books exhibition will feature more than 65 photographs including Wessel’s Incidents and Traffic portfolios in their entirety, as well as highlights from Wessel’s full body of work from more than four decades.
The Pickwick Papers, A. A. Milne's Pooh books, Jonathan Swift, and Samuel Johnson's Dictionary will all go under the hammer at Gorringe’s next month.
The York National Book Fair returns to the Knavesmire Suite at York Racecourse on September 12 and 13Established in 1974, the
York Book Fair is regarded as the largest rare and antiquarian book fair in the U.K and Europe. Held over two days, more than 200
leading booksellers offering more…
Highlights from PBA Galleries' August 20 Fine Press & Bindings auction include:* The Works of Lord Byron edited by Richard Henry StoddardLyceum Edition published by Francis A. Niccolls & Co (London and Boston, 1900), 16 volumes. Engraved frontispieces with tissue guards, buckram boards,…
