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The Newberry Library has received a $4m grant from the Mellon Foundation which will fund a five-…
The top lot of Freeman's' latest auction was a manuscript document signed by John Hancock,…
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The Grolier Club in New York City presents an exhibition this fall about the power of books and ideas at a time of censorship and repression.
Chiswick Auctions’ 'Books and Works on Paper' sale on August 24 will include two rare Georgian manuals on the art of boxing. Both were written by well-known bareknuckle prize fighters around 1790.
On August 2, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed by John Hancock and members of the Continental Congress. Visitors to the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia now can see a rare 1823 engraved printing of the Declaration that belonged to the last surviving signer, Charles…
Celebrity became an international industry in the late 19th century and the English artist and author Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) was at the center of it, as a new NYPL exhibition Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity will show in October.
The Folio Society today publishes a new limited edition of the multimillion bestseller and one of the most successful Spanish books ever written, Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Shadow of the Wind.First published in English 20 years ago, this anniversary is marked with a leather-bound volume, blocked in…
A CGC 9.6 copy of Amazing Spider-Man #1 (March 1963) – one of only five of its type and grade known to exist – rocketed to a final price of $520,380 at Hake’s latest auction of pop culture memorabilia. The comic had been displayed at Comic-Con in San Diego.
Potter & Potter's August, 2023 Vintage and Modern Magicana Auction will feature a fine selection of Harry Houdini-related items including inscribed and signed books, images, posters, and rare ephemera.Leading the sale are several books with ties to Harry Houdini including:
MW Book Fairs has announced the launch of Books in Boston @ Hilton Back Bay, a new antiquarian book & ephemera fair. Initial interest has been strong, with 25 dealers committed since the public announcement of the show.
The 2023 Library of Congress National Book Festival returns to the Washington Convention Center on August 12, taking as its theme 'Everyone Has a Story' to celebrate the storyteller in us all.
To mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s First Folio, the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin will display all three copies in the library’s collection beginning August 19 as part of the exhibition, The Long Lives of Very Old Books.
