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Freeman’s will begin its yearlong celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the…
An archive of Louisa May Alcott material acquired by the Concord Free Public Library includes…
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The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archive of film star Olivia de Havilland.
Sotheby’s' Visions of America auction series this month is led by its Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana sale which brings together autograph letters, manuscripts, and printed works tracing the American story from the Revolutionary era through the Civil War and into the 20th…
This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections advisor specializing in rare books and manuscripts as well as fine photography and prints.
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
