Fine Books News: Recent
Highlights from Bernard Quaritch's new catalogue Nowhere, a selection of books on utopias,…
Heritage Auctions’ July 24–25 Movie Posters auction features a range of Universal's horror posters…
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A document signed by Reich President Karl Dönitz authorizing the start of surrender negotiations with Allied forces in the final days of World War II sold for $166,333 at RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction.
An archive featuring the progress of Roald Dahl’s 1984 memoir Boy: Tales of Childhood including 33 original ink sketches in black ballpoint pen by Dahl comes to auction on June 18 at Lyon & Turnbull's June's Books & Manuscripts auction.The archive (estimate: £20,000 - £30,000) comes from…
A rare signed photograph of former US President Abraham Lincoln and his son will go under the hammer in Bonhams' June 16-25 Fine Books & Manuscripts sale.
Books and other personal items belonging to film-maker David Lynch will go under the hammer on June 18.
On the 97th anniversary of his birth, Christie’s Maurice Sendak: Artist, Collector, Connoisseur auction made a total of $4,872,494. These sales will support the Sendak Fellowship, a residency program at The Maurice Sendak Foundation, a nonprofit organization that encourages,…
Australia’s longest-running and most popular book exhibition, World of the Book, is celebrating its milestone 20th anniversary at State Library Victoria in Melbourne.Two recent acquisitions are on public display for the first time in Australia, a medieval scribal knife dated to the 15th century,…
Highlights of Swann Galleries' Printed & Manuscript Americana on June 12 spanning nearly five centuries of American history include: * Courtius, Klyn Loretten in Noord-America/ Little Loretto, KentuckyEngraving, circa 1812, a view of the compound built by the Sisters of Loretto, an order…
The Getty Research Institute's new exhibition $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives opens today exploring queer representation through a range of materials dating from 1900 to the present day.
Today, on the 155th anniversary of the death of Charles Dickens, a previously unpublished photograph of the sale of his goods at his Gad's Hill home goes on show at the London museum where he once lived.
Ten handwritten letters by Swedish Hollywood star Greta Garbo, written in Swedish during the 1940s and 1950s, go under the hammer at Stockholms Auktionsverk on June 10.
