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Auctions

The Thirty-Nine Steps

'The Thirty-Nine Steps', 'The Hobbit', and William Jevons Letter: The Week in Rare Books

First Edition Harry Potter Sold For $400,000 at Auction

André Breton Collage Letter Leads Rare Books Sale at Christie's

Visual Art

Diana in the Corn by Sir William Nicholson (1872-1949)

Novelist Jilly Cooper's Favourite Art Works to Auction

Original Art for Edgar Rice Burroughs Titles Leads Illustration Auction

Robert Louis Stevenson Statue Set for Unveiling

Americana

Captain Robert A. Lewis’s mission-used flight logbook from the Enola Gay

Enola Gay’s Hiroshima Logbook and Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ Lyrics Lead RR Auction Sale

Important African Americana Collection Leads at Freeman's

George Washington Wartime Letter to New York Governor Sold for $45,375

Book People

2026 Sandars Lectures Focus on History of Paper

Darby Ronning's Feminist Science Fiction Collection Wins Final Honey & Wax Prize

A. S. Byatt Archive Acquired by British Library

Rare Books

Walt Whitman's O brood continental autograph manuscript poem, early 1860s

Walt Whitman’s Working Manuscript of 'O brood continental' Leads Peter Harrington Poetry Catalogue

Finely Bound Dos Passos Trilogy: Rare Books of the Week

Previously Unknown 15th Century Text by Gutenberg Associates Discovered

Maps

Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1601

Atlases and Maps: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

New Book Focuses on Historic First Detailed Map of 18th Century London

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Photographs

May 1956, Ernest Hemingway and a 730lb Marlin

Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea' Location Photos to Auction

'Henry Wessel: Photographs and Books' at the Grolier Club

Sports and Music Photographs by Michael Zagaris to Auction

Sponsored

On the Origin of Species

First Edition of “On the Origin of Species” Features at Ripley

1859 First Edition of Darwin’s "On the Origin of Species" to Lead Ripley Rare Books Auctions

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Exhibitions

Cover of Fire! #1, November 1926

Two Exhibitions Celebrating Black Literary Life  Open at Beinecke

Francis Bacon’s 'Sylva Sylvarum' Stars in New Art and Science Exhibit

Artistry of Bookmaking Highlighted in New Bedford Exhibition

Book Arts

Miami Zine Fair 2025

Miami Zine Fair 2026 Details

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’