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A 1920 tour contract guaranteeing George Herman 'Babe' Ruth $10,000 for 10 exhibition games in Cuba…
An archive of correspondence relating to the Kennedy political dynasty is expected to sell for £2,…
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Gifts & Books, the new free exhibition at the Bodleian Libraries running through October 29, looks at the many reasons for giving books as presents, from Virgil's Aeneid to the birth of the book token and the rise of modern day charity bookshops. Accompanying it is an excellent volume, Gifts…
Sotheby’s has announced details of its Book Week, a four part global sale series across its Paris, London, and New York locations. The lots feature notable works across categories including important printed and manuscript Americana, fine examples of literature spanning continents and centuries,…
Independent publisher SP Books today publishes a deluxe edition of Truman Capote’s true crime fiction novel In Cold Blood. It brings together for the first time the author’s notebooks and papers preserved at the Library of Congress and at the NYPL in a limited edition of 1,000 copies.
Christie's (Paris) online sale of rare books and manuscripts Livres rares et Manuscrits features more than 220 lots from the 15th century to the present day.
The Book Arts Newsletter is published seven times a year at the Centre for Fine Print Research and the latest issue, edited as always by Sarah Bodman, is out now.
The theme of this year's Literary London Conference is ‘Fashioning London: Streets, Styles and Storytelling' and runs at Devon House on campus at Northeastern University London July 6–7. According to the organisers:
Thornwillow Press is setting out to make the ultimate collector's edition of E. B. White's Charlotte's Web, featuring the iconic, original illustrations by Garth Williams in the first-ever fine press limited edition of the classic story.
The four-day Heritage Auctions Comics & Comic Art auctions was capped by Frank Frazetta's Dark Kingdom, which sold for $6 million to become the world's most valuable comic or fantasy art.
The Folio Society has published a new limited edition of Beowulf, using Seamus Heaney’s interpretation, presented with the Old English verse.
A 14th century scientific manuscript achieved more than 22 times its estimate when it sold for $89,000 at Bonhams' June Fine Books & Manuscripts auction in New York. The 56-page illustrated manuscript on vellum written in Latin describes the construction and uses for the quadrant, a…
