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John Steinbeck and James Fenimore Cooper handwritten manuscripts are going under the hammer…
Handwritten lyrics, signed albums, and original artwork from Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, and Bob…
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Christie's' We The People: America at 250 auction offering foundational documents of American history in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries more than doubled its estimate to total $35,562,465.The top three lots of the sale were:
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Alexandra E. LaGrand, winner of the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for woman collectors aged 30 and under.Where are you from / where do you live?I am from Cary, North Carolina, but currently live in College Station, Texas.
Highlights from Heritage Auctions' auction include:Ten Years Ago: The Nazis Burned These Books (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943)
Peter Harrington is due to offer a group of original manuscripts and typescripts for Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne which it describes as "the only obtainable manuscript material for any of the Pooh books".
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Treasures from the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg is a new exhibition coming to the Morgan Library which features his writings and personal musical instruments.A collaboration between the Morgan Library & Museum in New York and the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg, on…
An archive spanning six decades of Tom Verlaine’s working life including lyric drafts, handwritten notebooks, short stories, correspondence, and hundreds of hours of unreleased music by the Neon Boys, Television, and solo work has been acquired by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts…
Highlights from Bernard Quaritch's new catalogue Almanacks include:Rider’s British Merlin for 1660
The Bodleian Libraries' forthcoming exhibition Pets & their People will explore why humans keep animals close, and what our evolving relationships with pets reveal about ourselves.
Upcoming exhibitions at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art include a focus on The Story of Ferdinand, Carle's modernist inspirations, and the connection between fiber arts and picture books.
The 63rd Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair returns next week featuring more than 70 exhibitors from 11 countries making it the most globally represented edition in the fair’s six-decade history.
