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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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The Clive Bullimore Autograph Collection, including the signatures of around 60,000 different celebrities, amassed by a former stockbroker over more than 70 years is a Who’s Who of 20th century pop culture and expected make in excess of £100,000 at Sworders.
Elizabeth Xi Bauer has opened The moon between my teeth, an exhibition in London of new works by Gokula Stoffel in conversation with Alexandra Zarins’ most recent series of paintings, inspired by Anne Sexton’s poem The Frog Prince.
On Wednesday, June 21, Lyon & Turnbull sell 329 lots of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs. An album of 26 watercolors by Shaykh Muhammad Amir of Karraya or his studio, known as the Balfour Album, shares the top estimate of £15,000-20,000 with a 1663 portolan chart of the…
Christie’s will present an autograph letter from the 26-year old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his close friend Baroness von Waldstätten (estimate: £300,000–500,000) declaring that he will need to get married within two days in order to save his future wife from the scandal of…
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter corrected page proofs led Christie’s' Fine Books and Manuscripts June sales, going for $693,000 to philanthropist and bibliophile Stuart Rose.
Our Bright Young Booksellers series takes us to Hawaii today for an interview with Sarah Gibbon, proprietor of Kona Bay Books on the Big Island, Hawaii.How did you get started in rare books?
Heritage will present the first broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence printed in Massachusetts at auction on July 8. There are only six recorded copies of this historic broadside, and the one going under the hammer is one of just two in private hands - the only other copy in private…
It's Bloomsday today and there are celebrations going on around the world to mark the day on which James Joyce set Ulysses in 1904.
"I love researching the provenance of my books", wrote bibliophile and blogger Jerry Morris in his 2014 blog post 'Some Auspicious Biblio-Sleuthing", a mission statement that shines from every page of a new collection of his writings, The 7 Book Blogs of Jerry Morris.
Nearly 1,500 items will go under the hammer at Heritage's June 22-25 Comics & Comic Art auction including work by Frank Frazetta, Golden Age Batmans, pages documenting the birth of Bane, original Calvin and Hobbes strips, and the first meeting of MAD's 'Spy vs. Spy'.
