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The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair will return to the Hynes Convention Center in Boston…
Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire, has acquired a portrait miniature of Jane Austen’s…
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The Missouri Botanical Garden has acquired a rare first edition of Mark Catesby’s The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands.
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Two-part September 23 event will also feature Matisse, Milne, Vonnegut and Cather; rare-book consignments accepted through September 9
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A typed and signed Ernest Hemingway letter discussing his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls including his description, "...when you are writing the best book you ever wrote..." will go under the hammer at Nate D. Sanders tomorrow.
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The Charles Dickens Museum today reveals the author's views on summer in the city, his favourite holidays and ingenious efforts to cool off during a hot British summer. Running through September 27, a new display in the study at Dickens’s London home at 48 Doughty Street, now the Charles…
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A near complete run of The Wipers Times trench newspaper written and printed by soldiers during the First World War has sold for £7,000 in the Books, Maps and Manuscripts sale at Tennants Auctioneers.
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An important African Americana collection has nearly tripled its pre-sale estimate at the latest Freeman’s Books & Manuscripts auction.
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The Grolier Club's forthcoming Henry Wessel – Photographs and Books exhibition will feature more than 65 photographs including Wessel’s Incidents and Traffic portfolios in their entirety, as well as highlights from Wessel’s full body of work from more than four decades.
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An extremely rare 1781 promissory note printed and twice signed by Benjamin Franklin to arrange repayment of a French loan that helped finance the American Revolution leads the Freeman's August 20 Books & Manuscripts auction.
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A Revolutionary War letter signed by George Washington and sent to New York Governor George Clinton has sold for $45,375 at RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale.Dated June 10, 1779, the letter was written at Washington’s headquarters during the American response to a British offensive in…
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The Worlds of Gertrude Stein exhibition at The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin will examine the life and writing of Gertrude Stein.