This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections advisor specializing in rare books and manuscripts as well as fine photography and prints. He is also the author ...

A signed typed letter by J.R.R. Tolkien to a fan about the language in his recently published The Adventures of Tom Bombadil ...

A life-size bronze installation depicting Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson will be publicly unveiled next month after ...

Tickets for Hallowe'en and Christmas events at the Charles Dickens Museum in London go on sale on October 1 with one-man ...

A four-part sale series featuring one of the most significant private collections of cat-related books and art ever assembled begins tomorrow at Bonhams. The Sandy Lerner Collection from American ...

155 volumes in duodecimo and octavo, publisher's decorated bindings, 130 of which feature color lithographs on the front cover, produced between 1850 and 1890. Published by Mégard in Rouen, Mame in ...

An archive chronicling more than six decades of life in Palestine has been saved from the risk of destruction and preserved at the Universities of Edinburgh and Exeter for study, teaching and research ...

Original blue-grey cloth stamped in gilt. With four folding route maps. Numerous illustrations, from photographs, of circus and sideshow performers, including Frank and Annie Howard (tattooed couple), ...

The Sunderland Collection of world maps has announced the creation of Ex Carta, a sister collection dedicated to fictional and world-building cartography that spans more than 700 years across over 160 ...

Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Ben Roylance, proprietor of Apport Used Books in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. How did you get started in rare books? My work with rare books came to ...

The Missouri Botanical Garden has acquired a rare first edition of Mark Catesby’s The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. The work was the first fully illustrated natural ...

Nimbus Rare Books is offering one of only 15 specially-bound copies of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone presented by J. K. Rowling to young readers in 2012 as part of the 15th anniversary ...