The J. Paul Getty Museum’s The Egyptian Book of the Dead exhibition will return next…
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This week's entry is a collection of more than 170 autograph letters written by the American former CIA counterintelligence officer Alrich Ames found guilty of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia in 1994. They will go under the hammer in Dominic Winter's July 23 Printed Books,…
A major donation by Australian singer and writer Nick Cave to an Oxfam bookshop in Hove on England's south coast has drawn fans to browse the items from his personal library.The 2,000 volumes come from the recent Stranger Than Kindness art installation in Canada and Copenhagen in collaboration with…
Incline Press proprietor, printer and binder Graham Moss has died in Scotland after a short illness.
Durham Cathedral has opened its landmark summer exhibition Magna Carta and the North with a powerful new light-based artwork The Words That Bind Us taking centre stage in the Cathedral’s Nave.
Highlights from Bernard Quaritch's new catalogue Nowhere, a selection of books on utopias, dystopias, and imaginary voyages include:And a New Earth. A Romance by Charles Ernest Jacomb (London, George Routledge & Sons, 1926)
Heritage Auctions’ July 24–25 Movie Posters auction features a range of Universal's horror posters plus the work of Charlie Chaplin and Steven Spielberg.Highlights include glass slides for Dracula and Frankenstein, a six sheet poster for 1940’s The Mummy’s Hand, a title lobby card for the 1935…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Laura Ryan, proprietor of Aviary Books in Massachusetts.How did you get started in rare books?
A newly discovered raccoon-sized armored monstersaurian lizard from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has been named for the goblin prince from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, 'Bolg amondol'
A rare signed photograph tied to Marilyn Monroe’s 1954 visit to the San Francisco Federal Building has sold for $21,655 at RR Auction.Two weeks after marrying baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, Monroe arrived at the Federal Building on January 29, 1954, to secure a passport for their upcoming honeymoon…
The Fine Literature, Mysteries & Sci-fi, Bukowski, Beats and The Counterculture auction at PBA Galleries on July 17 features a section dedicated to the works of Charles Bukowski, including original art, limited editions, manuscripts and letters.
