The Christie's online Rare Books and Manuscripts sale running October 27 through November 5 will…
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Opening next month at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, Plain Things Wonders marks 400 years since the publication of Francis Bacon’s influential experimental science text Sylva Sylvarum.
A working manuscript of Walt Whitman’s Civil War poem, working drafts of Dylan Thomas's work, and a cache of Leonard Cohen’s early poetry feature in Peter Harrington's new catalogue Poetry: The Heart of the Matter.Highlights include:
Boundless: The Book as Art opens tomorrow at The New Bedford Whaling Museum celebrating creativity in traditional book arts, including printing, typography, illustration, bookbinding, papermaking, and graphic design. On view through February 15, 2027, the exhibition includes more than 200 rare…
Ragtime: Cakewalk in Pianoland following ragtime's path from the musical traditions of enslaved Black people to the world's concert halls will go on show at The Morgan Library & Museum next month.
Frank Earle Schoonover’s Where is the Key, Sola? painted for the first book edition of A Princess of Mars in 1917 and one of the earliest depictions of John Carter and Dejah Thoris is among the highlights of Heritage Auctions’ October 29 Illustration Art sale.
The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archive of author, journalist, publisher, activist, and artist Dave Eggers.“Dave Eggers’s archive is a record of creative engagement with the world,” said Stephen Enniss, Director of the Harry Ransom Center. “With this…
Literary historian Alain Riffaud has won First Prize in the 19th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography for his Catalogue Molière: 1660–1673 published last year by the Le Mans cultureal association Matière à Dire.Riffaud wins $10,000 for the The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers' prize…
The Grolier Club will open an exhibition later this year telling the story of Black people in America from early writings by free Black people through the Black Arts Movement and beyond. Running December 3 through February 20, 2027, Black Brilliance: An American Chronicle will…
An Edgar Allan Poe carte de visite from the early 1860s taken four days after the poet’s attempted suicide in 1848 features in University Archives’ online Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Books & Photographs auction on October 21.The sale contains the second installment, more than 60 lots, from…
A handwritten letter by Anton Chekhov in Russian about the success of The Seagull and his consequent fame leads RR Auction’s Fine Autographs & Artifacts online sale which closes October 14.
