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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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Singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull's diaries are currently under the hammer at Bonhams' online Sound and Cinema auction which finishes on December 3.Faithfull (1946-2025) was one of the key figures of 1960s London, including collaborations with The Rolling Stones, Nick Cave, PJ…
Catawiki has started a new way for collectors to experience the holiday season with its Books & Historical Memorabilia Advent Calendar, a 24-day sequence of curated 24-hour auctions. Running until December 24, a new themed auction opens every evening, each highlighting a different facet of…
Rare pulp magazines and 'ashcans' from the Dr. Richard Meli Pulp Collection will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions December 4-6.
A major new initiative to save and restore poet Robert Burns’s Ellisland Farm has been launched by The Robert Burns Ellisland Trust.The international fundraising 'The Saving the Home of Auld Lang Syne' campaign hopes to preserve the historic building in Scotland where Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne,…
An early treatment for Gene Hackman's planned movie adapation of The Silence of the Lambs features in Bonhams' The Gene Hackman Collection:
A Life in Art, Part III
auction which runs online until December 4.
The Apple Computer Company Partnership Agreement joins founding father Rufus King's United States Constitution draft at Christie's' We the People: America at 250 auction.
Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Christina Vortia, Chief Librarian at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University in Washington DC.What is your role at your institution?
A first edition, first issue of Charles Dickens's 1843 A Christmas Carol leads Bellmans’ Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts auction on December 3.
Christmas celebrations are already underway at the Charles Dickens Museum in London which is the home in which Dickens himself and his family celebrated yuletide.Over the festive period an extension of the current Showtime! exhibition will be on view in Dickens’s study, exploring Dickens’s…
A scarce copy of Beatrix Potter’s The Fairy Caravan leads Tennants’ Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on December 11.
