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Unfurling the Flag: Reflections on American Patriotism at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and…
A one-page signed autograph manuscript featuring Franz Schubert’s choral setting Das Grab has sold…
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The Carle will open a new exhibition later this month exploring Eric Carle’s career through the perspective of food. Cooking with Eric Carle, running September 20 through August 23, 2026, at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA, will feature more than 50 works dating from…
Here are the sales I'll be watching in the coming weeks:On Wednesday, September 10, Hansons Auctioneers holds a sale of Fine Judaica & Theology (The Collection of Tim Lutz) & September Library Sale (224 lots).
The York 2025 Rare and Antiquarian Book Fair returns to York Racecourse later this week running September 12-13.The fair has been running since 1974
when it was first held with only 20 exhibitors at the White Swan Inn in York. Now held over two days, more than 200 of the country’s
leading…
A new limited edition of all six of Jane Austen’s major novels is published tomorrow by The Folio Society, encased in woven silk-and-cotton covers with original illustrations by Sarah Young.The Complete Novels by Jane Austen is published to celebrate the 250th anniversary of her birth, with a…
One of Jane Austen’s letters written to her sister Cassandra in 1805 chronicling the social life of Bath that shaped her novel Persuasion headlines a special auction at Sotheby's next month.
Highlights of Lyon & Turnbull's The Secret Life of Props: The Eccentric Trading Collection, online auction running September 24-25 include:* a pair of early 20th century mahogany and brass revolving bookcases with two tiers of book compartments, on tubular downswept legs and stretchers (…
RR Auction's online September Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction includes more than 800 lots and is anchored by highlights from the Civil War and American West Collection of Dr. Joseph Matheu.Among the offerings is a candid 1952 Ernest Hemingway handwritten signed letter…
A line-up of mostly Marvel comics goes under the hammer at Richard Winterton Auctioneers on September 29.They were all bought contemporaneously by a Staffordshire man who enjoyed them in his youth and have subsequently been carefully stored in a loft for many years. Catalogued across more than 50…
Princeton University Library's upcoming exhibition will focus on the diversity and beauty of global book making, concentrating on three major traditions of the book form, codex, East Asian, and pothī.Forms and Function: The Splendors of Global Book Making opens September 10 and runs though December…
Two autograph letters by Lord George Byron offering a glimpse into his early life and scandalous affairs will go under the hammer at Chorley’s Auctioneers on September 23.The letters were written in 1805 and 1808 to his London landlady and moneylender Mrs Massingberd, and feature the polite…
