The Christie's online Rare Books and Manuscripts sale running October 27 through November 5 will…
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A signed typed letter by J.R.R. Tolkien to a fan about the language in his recently published The Adventures of Tom Bombadil is among the items coming up for auction at Swann Galleries' autograph sale on November 8.
More than 70 Bibles and devotional works from from the Estate of Robert Funk will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions’ October 14 Rare Books sale.
A life-size bronze installation depicting Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson will be publicly unveiled next month after seven years of planning, fundraising, sculpting and fabrication.
The Surrealist Book: Tomorrow Lives in Mirrors at The Museum of Modern Art in New York will showcase the impact of artists’ books within the Surrealist movement. On view at MoMA from October 4 through January 23, 2027, the exhibition will feature a selection of rare volumes produced by…
A new catalogue from James Cummins Bookseller includes a previously unrecognized draft manuscript by Vita Sackville-West for A Note of Explanation, the miniature book she wrote for Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House at Windsor Castle and which has been cited as an inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.…
Part 1 of the Lawrence Klein collection at Hakes Auctions features a collection of vintage comic books and original comic book art by one of the industry’s most notable collectors and featuring original Todd McFarlane pen-and-ink artwork for Amazing Spider-Man #302 (Marvel Comics, July 1988), and…
Tickets for Hallowe'en and Christmas events at the Charles Dickens Museum in London go on sale on October 1 with one-man performances of Dickens’s stories by James Swanton and Dominic Gerrard.Nancy’s Murder and Other Horrifying Tales performed by Dominic Gerrard (October 28 and 29) focuses on the…
A four-part sale series featuring one of the most significant private collections of cat-related books and art ever assembled begins tomorrow at Bonhams.The Sandy Lerner Collection from American businesswoman and philanthropist Sandy Lerner (b.1955) features …
The first of a two-part single-owner auction Reason and Revolution focusing on the history of scientific thought comes to Sotheby's next month.Featuring first editions from Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, and Isaac Newton including a rare surviving manuscript in Newton's…
Bob Dylan’s handwritten working lyrics for two songs from Blood on the Tracks have sold for $290,404 in RR Auction’s Remarkable Rarities sale.
