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The original typescript scroll first draft of Jack Kerouac's On The Road has become the most expensive literary manuscript to sell at auction.Christie's had initially given the 1951 manuscript a $2.5m-$4m estimate following its sale for $2.4m in 2001 but it eventually sold for $12.135m in the Jim…
A first edition of Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, an angry letter about edits to his publisher, and a Lincoln funeral train invitation are among the highlights of Heritage Auctions’ Extraordinary Dan Madsen Collection auction on March 18.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Treasures from the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg, is now running at the Morgan Library & Museum.
Six volumes from the If I Were Dictator series come to auction next week in PBA Galleries' March 19 Americana-Travel & Exploration-World History-Maps & Views action
The Stockholm Book Fair runs this weekend March 14-15 in the city's Academy of Fine Arts.The Swedish Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (Svenska Antikvariatföreningen) has organized the fair since 1959 and returns again to the halls of the Academy of Arts in the centre of Stockholm.
“Exhibitors and participants from New York City to Reykjavik and Tokyo are convening to share their involvements and activities with contemporary art books” is how Printed Matter introduced the first NY Art Book Fair 20 years ago.
A new manuscript exhibition exploring how books of hours personally engaged users has opened at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.Curated from the Walters’ collection of rare books and manuscripts, Medieval Mindscapes features 22 works and is on view through August 23, 2026.
Two original watercolour illustrations for The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling which were long thought lost have been sold at Roseberys for a total of £130,480.
Arts Over Borders has launched a new project identifying and celebrating the concentration of literary greatness across Ireland.
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Viktoria Malik of PY Rare Books in London and New York:How did you get started in rare books?
