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A copy of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer produced by the esteemed Kelmscott Press in 1896 has…
Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire will kick off the celebrations for Austen’s 250th…
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A rare Gimbels Department Store version of the M101-4 1916 Babe Ruth Rookie Card has surpassed its estimate by selling for $762,500 in Bonhams’ Fine Books and Manuscripts sale.
At her late husband’s funeral, JFK's widow Jacqueline Kennedy, read from Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3, verses 1-8 and the 'Inauguration' Bible from which she read during the service comes to Heritage Auctions’ April 26-27 Americana & Political Signature sale.
A collection of historical documents signed by Abraham Lincoln, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison are up for sale through Goldin's latest Pop Culture Auction. The collection includes a document signed by Lincoln and his Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton appointing a…
An interesting archive of letters and ephemera relating to the composer and bandmaster Charles Coote (1809-1880), personal pianist to William Cavendish, the 6th Duke of Devonshire, has sold for £4,500 in the Books, Maps & Manuscripts Sale at North Yorkshire-based Tennants Auctioneers.
Sotheby’s' Book Week in June will feature items from the library of surgeon and book collector Dr. Rodney P. Swantko including Sidney Paget’s original drawing for the illustration The Death of Sherlock Holmes for the Arthur Conan Doyle short story The Final Problem, and a rare first edition of…
Un Discurso del Chocolate, written by Santiago Valverde Turices and printed 400 years ago in Seville, is considered to be the first book to focus exclusively on chocolate. It is being offered in an online auction ending April 13 by ANNO, Leilões de livros antigos e raros, an auction house…
A selection of works and personal items including early photographs from the life of Cormac McCarthy and his second-wife, the English singer Annie DeLisle, are going under the hammer at Bonhams’ Fine Books and Manuscripts auction until April 10.
Edgar Rice Burroughs' dual-edged knife used in the 1929 film Tarzan and the Tiger and the Gothic library table seen in numerous photos of the man at his Tarzana, California, home will go under the hamme on April 25 along with original cover artwork by James Allen St. John and Studley Oldham…
The Discovery of America catalogue of works will be offered for sale at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair 2024 by a consortium of four specialist dealers, London bookseller Peter Harrington, the New Haven-based William Reese Company, James Cummins Bookseller of New York, and…
A copy of Action Comics No. 1, the comic book that introduced Superman to the world in 1938, has sold for $6m at Heritage Auctions during its latest Comics & Comic Art auction. Graded CGC Very Fine+ 8.5, this issue from the Kansas City Pedigree is one of the world's finest copies…
