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Auctions

The last photo of Oscar Wilde on his death bed

£279,800 Death Bed Photo Tops Oscar Wilde Sale

Official Invitations From 1896 Athens Olympics to Auction

Mark Twain: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Maps

WWII Operation Bigot map

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Book Arts

Antony Gormley's Tree for Waiting for Godot on an upland bog in the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark Co. Fermanagh at the July 2019 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

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’

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Exhibitions

Anwar E Suhaili, The Fables of Pilpay

Fairy Tales Celebrated in Major New Exhibition

New Huntington Library Exhibition Celebrates Links Between Land and American History

Unpublished Charles Dickens Fan Letter Opens New Exhibition on Women in His Life

Book People

Some of the Haud Nominandum items that will now be made accessible

Future of Priceless 'Haud Nominandum' LGBTQ+ Collection Secured

Food Writer Nicola Miller on Collecting Cookbooks

Hard Case Crime Releases Out-of-Print Joyce Carol Oates Thrillers

Photographs

From The People of India albumen prints

Karsh's Apollo 11, Cabinet Cards, and 'The People of India': The Week in Rare Books

Getty Museum Focuses on Photography and the Black Arts Movement

'Brassaï’s Secret Paris' Opens at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York

Americana

William P. Dole's Railroad Pass to Travel to Gettysburg on November 18, 1863 and Gettysburg Marshal's Ticket Dated November 19

Gettysburg Rail Pass and Lincoln's Last Message to Congress to Auction

Mysterious George Washington Historical Document Surfaces for Presidents Day

Louisiana Purchase Signed Documents Sold for $82,394 at RR Auction

Rare Books

The Austin-Burnet letter

First Book Printed in the Republic of Texas Heads Texana Auction

Gil Evans's Jazz Archive Acquired by Library of Congress

Women Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Visual Art

Cover of Action Comics No. 21 drawn by Joe Shuster

Original Joe Shuster Action Comics Cover Art and Frank Frazetta Artwork to Auction

Rediscovered Original 'The Jungle Book' Illustrations to Auction

War Posters: Five Rare Posters for Collectors