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A first edition of Wuthering Heights together with Agnes Grey has sold at Christie’s…
An important cache of Margaret Thatcher documents including previously unseen letters held by her…
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Items related to the Gettysburg Address and Abraham Lincoln's final Annual Message to Congress will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions' Historical Manuscripts sale on February 26.
A rare group of surviving documents connected to the first modern Olympic Games are being offered as part of RR Auction’s Olympics Auction closing tomorrow.The sale includes 340 lots spanning the history of the modern Olympic movement including this set of three handwritten invitation letters…
Highlights from PBA Galleries' Fine Literature/With Mysteries & Sci-fi/Queer Literature & Art/Beats & the Counterculture include these Mark Twain volumes:The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and C.D. Warner (Hartford, American Publishing Company, 1874)
Two original watercolour illustrations for Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book long thought lost have been rediscovered and will be offered at Roseberys next month.Extraordinarily rare, they increase the number of known surviving originals from a set of 16 to just six. London auctioneers Roseberys…
The Raab Collection has discovered and will offer for sale for Presidents’ Day a mysterious relic of a long-lost document in the hand of George Washington containing four enigmatic words.
Charles Ardai, editor of Hard Case Crime,spoke with us over email about the three volumes of Joyce Carol Oates (writing as Rosamund Smith) thrillers the pulp mystery imprint is re-publishing this year:Please introduce us to the three Joyce Carol Oates / Rosamond Smith titles upcoming from Hard Case…
Signed in Paris by American diplomats Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe and French official Barbé-Marbois, the document acknowledges receipt of the treaty and conventions ratified by Napoleon Bonaparte and directs that the paperwork be sent to President Thomas Jefferson “without delay.”
Highlights of Bernard Quaritch's new Women Printers, Publishers, Booksellers catalogue celebrating the contribution of women to the book trade in Europe across four centuries, from the early 1500s to the 1840s include:* Expositione del Tricasso Mantuano sopra il Cocle al illustrissimo signore…
Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985, on view at The J. Paul Getty Museum running February 24 through June 14 will look at the many ways photography fostered Black empowerment and propelled social change.
Ticket stubs, maps, playbills, postcards, political buttons, forgotten photographs and more will return to the Ephemera Society of America's flagship Ephemera Fair.It is the largest event of its kind in the U.S., bringing more than 60 dealers and over 10,000 pieces of rare and historic printed…
