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Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Jaeden Yoshikawa of Mankato, Minnesota who…
A new celebration of the life and work of Samuel Beckett will take place in rural and urban…
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Decorations and holiday trees inspired by poems, traditional tales, and children’s books are on show at this year's Yuletide at Winterthur which runs through January 4 in Delaware.
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.
A special festive selection of items related to Christmas from various dealers:* Robert Frost, a collection of five Christmas Poems for 1953, 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1963 (New York, Spiral Press, 1953–1963)
A complete three-volume set of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in first editions, first impressions has been sold by Heritage Auctions for $250,000.
Throughout the year we have enjoyed suggesting the best new books about the many and varied facets of the book world that have been published each month. Here are our 10 favorites, the first five chosen by our print magazine editor Allison Meier, the second five by online editor Alex Johnson.…
Christ Church Oxford and the Bodleian Libraries have become joint owners of an exceptionally rare first edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the most important of only 22 known surviving copies of the first and subsequently withdrawn edition.
The book collection of silver and antiques expert Michael Baggott is going to auction at Richard Winterton Auctioneers with a special timed sale over Christmas.Catalogued across more than 150 lots, the library is a treasure trove of knowledge on 500 years of silver, silversmiths and hallmarks, with…
The National Maritime Museum has opened a display to mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth this week Including manuscripts relating to her youngest brothers Francis and Charles Austen, examining Jane’s connections to the Royal Navy and the influence her brothers had in her works.
RR Auction's music-focused December sale features a range of signed albums and historic documents including a rare one-page autograph letter signed “Leonard” written March 31, 1967, from Buffalo, New York, to Cohen’s girlfriend and muse Marianne Ihlen.
In this second of a two-part post to mark Jane Austen's birthday yesterday, screenwriter Heidi Lux looks at how film-makers have treated the author's most popular work.The worst offender in terms of changing our perceptions of P&P by far is the 2005 Kiera Knightley version.
