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The winner of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize is Darby Ronning for The Alldera…
The British Library has announced it has acquired the archive of novelist, short story writer, and…
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The Raab Collection has announced the discovery of an unknown and apparently unpublished F. Scott Fitzgerald letter from April 22, 1924, written to a long-lost cousin. The handwritten note touches on family, religion, women, and other subjects, and shows a personal and unreserved side of Fitzgerald…
New York's The Jewish Museum's latest exhibition is The Sassoons, revealing the fascinating story of a remarkable Jewish family, highlighting their pioneering role in trade, art collecting, architectural patronage, and civic engagement from the early 19th century through World War II. It follows…
The New York Public Library, in partnership with Cambridge University Library, has launched a new exhibition, Charles Darwin: A Life in Letters which celebrates the recent completion of the Darwin Correspondence Project, a 45-year endeavor to publish all of Charles Darwin’s letters.
One of the largest collections of Enid Byton books in the world is set for auction thanks to a lifelong collector whose passion gained royal attention.
Over the course of nearly 50 years Julia Sesemann amassed thousands of books written by the famous children’s author including valuable…
Freeman’s latest Books and Manuscripts auction was marked by fierce bidding competition over presidential material and significant Americana, resulting in the $441,000 sale of a volume from the personal library of George Washington.
“The market for presidential books, documents, and autographs is…
Historical manuscripts and documents dating from the 17th to 20th centuries attracted strong bidding when they came under the hammer in Tennants Auctioneers’ Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale, led by a superb 18th century manuscript account of a Grand Tour through Europe written by Lady Mary…
A pristine Apple Computer Company check signed by Steve Jobs in 1976 comes under the hammer at
Boston-based RR Auction. The year of the company's founding marked a turning point in the history of modern technology and this check represents an important moment in the development of Apple.
In addition to a good selection of bibliography from a bookseller’s reference library (teamed with the bookseller’s partner’s rug and textile reference library), the AntiquarianAuctions.com in the US sale #15 includes a number of unique and very rare titles.
One of the scarcest and most important documents in the history of the United States, the very first printing of the reward poster for the capture of John Wilkes Booth and two other conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, has sold for $166,375 at Nate D Saunders Auctions.…
The sixth-century Gospels of Augustine of Canterbury are the oldest surviving illustrated Latin Gospels in the world and the oldest non-archaeological artefact of any kind to have survived in England, continuously owned and in use for 1,400 years. The Gospels were shown to HM the King (then Prince…
