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Washington Irving’s original 90 page draft manuscript of Legend of the House of Omeya written…
The National Library of Scotland marks its official birthday today on the 100th anniversary of its…
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Patron of the Charles Dickens Museum Miriam Margolyes has officially opened its new exhibition Showtime! revealing the author's love of performing and two centuries of productions of his stories for theatre, film, television, radio and podcast.The co-writer and solo star of Dickens’ Women in…
Leading the Cecil B. DeMille section of Heritage Auctions' Hollywood/Entertainment sales was led by the DeMille-commissioned granite Ten Commandment tablets which went for $325,000.
The Morgan Library & Museum will present Sing a New Song: The Psalms in Medieval Art and Life later this year devoted to the importance of the Psalms in medieval art, prayer, and everyday life.
This week's entry is a collection of more than 170 autograph letters written by the American former CIA counterintelligence officer Alrich Ames found guilty of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia in 1994. They will go under the hammer in Dominic Winter's July 23 Printed Books,…
A major donation by Australian singer and writer Nick Cave to an Oxfam bookshop in Hove on England's south coast has drawn fans to browse the items from his personal library.The 2,000 volumes come from the recent Stranger Than Kindness art installation in Canada and Copenhagen in collaboration with…
Incline Press proprietor, printer and binder Graham Moss has died in Scotland after a short illness.
Durham Cathedral has opened its landmark summer exhibition Magna Carta and the North with a powerful new light-based artwork The Words That Bind Us taking centre stage in the Cathedral’s Nave.
Highlights from Bernard Quaritch's new catalogue Nowhere, a selection of books on utopias, dystopias, and imaginary voyages include:And a New Earth. A Romance by Charles Ernest Jacomb (London, George Routledge & Sons, 1926)
Heritage Auctions’ July 24–25 Movie Posters auction features a range of Universal's horror posters plus the work of Charlie Chaplin and Steven Spielberg.Highlights include glass slides for Dracula and Frankenstein, a six sheet poster for 1940’s The Mummy’s Hand, a title lobby card for the 1935…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Laura Ryan, proprietor of Aviary Books in Massachusetts.How did you get started in rare books?
