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Rare Books

Franz Kafka autograph letter signed "K", Prague, December 1921, to his close friend, the physician Robert Klopstock

Melbourne Rare Book Fair: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Library of Longleat House Manuscripts at Frieze Masters 2025

Illuminated Manuscripts Show Role of the Psalms in Medieval Life in New Exhibition

Americana

Evergreen Review at PBA Galleries

Charles Bukowski, Beats and The Counterculture at PBA Galleries

Hemingway Days Celebration in Key West

Revolutionary War and Founding Fathers Featured in Fine Autographs and Artifacts Auction

Sponsored

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Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Visual Art

A Persuasion engraving, Louisa falling on the Cobb, Joan Hassall, wood engraving, 1961

Jane Austen's Illustrators Celebrated in New Anniversary Exhibition

Eric Carle's Food Drawings on Display

New Art Installation Celebrates Magna Carta Anniversary

Auctions

1942 war bonds poster issued by Kroger, featuring two small children in gas masks

First Superman, American Atlas, Washington Letter: Auction Preview

Washington Irving’s Original Handwritten Manuscript of 'Legend of the House of Omeya' to Auction

Cecil B. DeMille's Ten Commandment Tablets Sold for $325,000

Photographs

Marilyn Monroe’s signed photograph

Marilyn Monroe’s Signed Passport Photograph Sold for $21,655

Victorian Photobook Bought at US Yard Sale to Auction with $67,000 Estimate

Rare Photograph of Abraham Lincoln with Son Tad to Auction

Exhibitions

Inside the new exhibition at the Charles Dickens Museum

Miriam Margolyes Launches New 'Showtime!' Exhibition at Charles Dickens Museum

Handwritten Letters by Elizabeth II to Feature in New Exhibition on the Queen's Fashion

Poet Richard Aldington Celebrated in New Exhibition

Book Arts

Reconstructed fragment of a bronze military diploma from Sardinia, issued by the emperor Trajan to a sailor on a warship. 113/14 CE

New AI Tool Could Help Reconstruct Missing Ancient Inscriptions

Mark Gatiss Headlines as Antiquarian Bookseller in New TV Crime Drama 'Bookish'

Pop-Up 'Antiquarian Bookstore' Launches to Promote a Single Title

Maps

F. E. Gallup. Gallup's Map of Texas, Showing Oil and Gas Fields, Pipe Lines and Refineries

Maps of Texas: Five Rare Books for Collectors

The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi’s ‘A Complete Map of All Under Heaven’

Maps & Atlases: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Book People

Nick Cave

Nick Cave Donates Thousands of His Books to Secondhand Charity Bookshop

Bright Young Collectors: Joshua Shelley

Graham Moss of Incline Press Dies at 77