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The Queen's Atlas, Medieval Manuscripts, and Ursula K. Le Guin's Cats: November Books Roundup
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The Queen's Atlas, Medieval Manuscripts, and Ursula K. Le Guin's Cats: November Books Roundup
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.The Queen’s Atlas: Saxton’s Elizabethan Masterpiece by David FletcherA richly illustrated boo...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Daphne du Maurier's Typewriter to Auction
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Daphne du Maurier's Typewriter to Auction
Daphne du Maurier's typewriter Olympia SM-4 De Luxe typewriter is going under the hammer at Bonhams' Books, Atlases and Manuscripts auction which ends on November 19.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Vintage Posters: Five Rare Books for Collectors
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Vintage Posters: Five Rare Books for Collectors
Highlights from Potter & Potter's Vintage Posters auction on November 13 featuring travel and airline posters, American and European advertising posters from the 19th century onwards, plus theater, ma...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Comedian Arthur Askey's Personal Library, Photos, and Scripts to Auction
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Comedian Arthur Askey's Personal Library, Photos, and Scripts to Auction
The annotated scripts, photos, musical scores, and books of one of the UK's favorite 20th century comedians Arthur Askey go under the hammer in a 220-lot auction at Hansons tomorrow.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Kurt Vonnegut was #BOTD in 1922. See below an ALS from an archive of letters sold in November 2018
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The Hands of Time. Remembering Kurt Vonnegut, who was born on this day in 1922. (ALS, part of archive of letters to his family mostly written while serving in US Army, 1930s-40s, sold @swanngalleries.bsky.social on November 8, 2018, $12,500. bit.ly/4qUgudI)
Letter by Kurt Vonnegut written to his family in pencil on leaf from legal pad showing signature drawn in bubble letters.
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Martin Luther, Chopin, Lincoln, and JFK Autograph Items to Auction
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Martin Luther, Chopin, Lincoln, and JFK Autograph Items to Auction
A religious reflection by Martin Luther, Frédéric Chopin’s signed publishing contracts, and a Civil War order from Abraham Lincoln are among the highlights at RR Auction’s Fine Autographs and Artifact...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Sandars Lectures 2025 Focus on Buying and Selling Archives
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Sandars Lectures 2025 Focus on Buying and Selling Archives
This year's Sandars Lectures on how archives have been bought and sold over the last 50 years will begin tonight and continue tomorrow in-person and live-streamed.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Unrecorded Photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Rare Photo of the Week
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Unrecorded Photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Rare Photo of the Week
A hitherto unknown photograph of the 19th century essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson has been acquired by William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library in Massachusetts. It ...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Booker Prize Bindings 2025
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Booker Prize Bindings 2025
The winner of the annual Booker Prize will be announced later today but all the shortlisted authors will receive a hand-bound edition of their own novel.This tradition of presenting each writer with a...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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John Lennon Typescript, Greek Independence, and Robert de Montequiou: The Week in Rare Books
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John Lennon Typescript, Greek Independence, and Robert de Montequiou: The Week in Rare Books
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.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Context help! I’m trying to fix a possible date on this papier mache snuff box. I *think* the words are “Playing at Hazar”. Anyone got any leads? I suspect the box is e19thc and possibly American.
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Tell me your well loved book tales! I’m collecting options for our reader comments in the winter issue.
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What is a well-worn book in your collection that may not be in the best condition but that you prize, and why?
A copy of Vikram Seth's novel A Suitable Boy barely held together by two rubber bands and an enthusiastic amount of sticky tape.
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Turning Pages: Artists’ Books of the Present
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Turning Pages: Artists’ Books of the Present
More than 300 artists' books and experimental publications have gone on show in the MAK’s Turning Pages: Artists’ Books of the Present exhibition in Vienna.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The Chelsea Bindery Celebrates 25 Years With a Special Anniversary Catalogue
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The Chelsea Bindery Celebrates 25 Years With a Special Anniversary Catalogue
Peter Harrington is marking the 25th anniversary of its in-house fine bindery The Chelsea Bindery with the publication of a special catalogue showcasing 140 bindings.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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What is a well-worn book in your collection that may not be in the best condition but that you prize, and why?
A copy of Vikram Seth's novel A Suitable Boy barely held together by two rubber bands and an enthusiastic amount of sticky tape.
November 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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£1m Auction Estimate for 10th Century Gospel Written by German Canonesses
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£1m Auction Estimate for 10th Century Gospel Written by German Canonesses
A 1,000-year-old Latin Gospel manuscript believed to have been written by a community of women at Essen Abbey in Germany around the year 900 will come to auction next month at Christie's. The manuscri...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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George Sand, Walt Whitman, and John Steinbeck Signed Manuscripts to Auction
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George Sand, Walt Whitman, and John Steinbeck Signed Manuscripts to Auction
Swann Galleries' November 6 Autographs auction features Florence Nightingale, Marie Curie, John Lennon, Thomas Jefferson, and Mark Twain, as well as manuscripts by John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman and Geo...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Salão do Livro Antigo Antiquarian Book Fair Returns in Portugal
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Salão do Livro Antigo Antiquarian Book Fair Returns in Portugal
The Portuguese Salão do Livro Antigo antiquarian book fair returns for its second edition at the Municipal House of Culture in Coimbra this week November 6- 9.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Freeman’s | Hindman Rebrands as Freeman’s
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Freeman’s | Hindman Rebrands as Freeman’s
Auction house Freeman’s | Hindman has rebranded  the company under the name Freeman’s timed to coincide with the 220th anniversary of its founding in November 1805 when Tristram B. Freeman was appoint...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Letter to Sir Walter Scott on Display For One Day Only
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Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' Letter to Sir Walter Scott on Display For One Day Only
The National Library of Scotland is holding a pop-up display of Frankenstein-related material on November 7 to coincide with the release of Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel on N...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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The First World War: Five Rare Books for Collectors
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The First World War: Five Rare Books for Collectors
Highlights of Forum Auctions' online sale The Pity of War, The First World War in words and images on November 6 include:Late Lyrics and Earlier by Thomas Hardy
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November 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Remarkable Renaissance Books: Book of the Week
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'Remarkable Renaissance Books': Book of the Week
Hot off the press is Remarkable Renaissance Books by John Boardley which focuses on 18 early printed volumes from Gutenberg's Bible to the early 18th century.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Is This the World’s Most Valuable Comic Book?
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Is This the World’s Most Valuable Comic Book?
A 1939 Superman No. 1 will headline Heritage Auctions' Comic Books sale later this month with expectations that it will break comic book records.It was uncovered by three Northern California brothers ...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM