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Heritage Auctions’ July 24–25 Movie Posters auction features a range of Universal's horror posters…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Laura Ryan, proprietor of Aviary Books in…
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Oxford Libararies Architecture by Geoffrey Tyack with photography by Dan Paton is not technically rare since it's due to be published later this week, but it is a marvellous volume of interest to readers of Fine Books & Collections.
More than a century after he was officially excluded, the British Library plans to symbolically reinstate the revoked Reader Pass that belonged to Oscar Wilde.
The largest collection of Cassandra Austen's artwork is on display at Jane Austen's House until September.The most well known of Cassandra’s surviving art are her family portraits, including her unfinished sketch of her sister Jane. The Art of Cassandra brings together 10 of her pieces,…
An ornate 1636 prayer book has been restored and returned to public exhibition with the help of a pioneering archaeological facility at the University of Exeter.Embroidered with silver and gold thread and one of very few of its kind to survive, the volume is housed at the stately home of Lanhydrock…
The National Library of Scotland centenary celebrations continue with the opening today of a new exhibition celebrating all kinds of libraries and the books that shape us.
The top lot at Swann Galleries' Printed & Manuscript Americana auction included the only known letter by Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s grandmother Lydia Mack.
An archive of letters by Victorian polymath John Ruskin believed to be the be the largest group of Ruskin letters and manuscripts in private hands comes up for sale at Sworders on July 9. This collection of hundreds of letters, many of them offered for sale in groups of up to a dozen, cover…
A selection of historic comic books and original comic art will be going under the hammer at Heritage Auctions' June 26-29 Comic & Comic Art auction.
A new exhibition at The Guildhall in Bath will showcase a selection of the finest books and bindings from Bath Record Office.
In its online Books and Manuscripts sale From Grolier to Godard ending today Sotheby’s is presenting 15 original drawings by Antoine Saint-Exupéry created in Algiers between late 1943 and early 1944, most of them previously unseen.
