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Gene Cernan's Handwritten Lunar Rover Repair Notes Sold for $510,000 finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…

Gene Cernan's Handwritten Lunar Rover Repair Notes Sold for $510,000

A wrist-mounted checklist containing Gene Cernan’s handwritten instructions for repairing a damaged lunar rover fender has sold for $510,000 in RR Auction’s latest Space Exploration auction.Cernan...

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Marilyn Monroe Photos by Lawrence Schiller On Show Next Month finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…

Marilyn Monroe Photos by Lawrence Schiller On Show Next Month

To mark 100 years since Marilyn Monroe was born, The New York Historical presents a new exhibition on her life, career, and her lesser-known attempts to wrestle control of her legacy. 

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Florence Nightingale Letters to Victorian Physicians to Auction finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…

Florence Nightingale Letters to Victorian Physicians to Auction

A cache of correspondence by the founder of modern nursing Florence Nightingale will go under the hammer at Sworders on November 1 consigned by a descendent of Sir Thomas Longmore, the Surgeon-Gene...

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Connections Between Textiles and Picture Books at The Carle finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…

Connections Between Textiles and Picture Books at The Carle

A new exhibition at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art opening next month will explores the connection between textiles and picture books over the past 60 years of illustration history. 

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Charles Booth's Poverty Maps Lead New Housing Exhibition finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…

Charles Booth's Poverty Maps Lead New Housing Exhibition

A major exhibition exploring the history of poverty and housing in London opens today at University of London’s Senate House Library.Running through March 5, 2027, A Place to Call Home: Poverty and...

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2000 AD Comic, Artists' Books, and Norman England Illuminated Manuscripts Lead British Library's 2027 Offerings finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…

'2000 AD' Comic, Artists' Books, and Norman England Illuminated Manuscripts Lead British Library's...

In Autumn 2027 the British Library will present Conquest: The Making of Norman England, the first national exhibition to explore the history and impact of Norman rule in England. 

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2026 Sandars Lectures Focus on History of Paper finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…

2026 Sandars Lectures Focus on History of Paper

The prestigious annual 2026 Sandars Lectures series will be given this year by Professor Marina Rustow on the subject of Flax to Folio: The Global Diffusion of Early Paper and the History of Textil...

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Novelist Jilly Cooper's Favourite Art Works to Auction finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…

Novelist Jilly Cooper's Favourite Art Works to Auction

Art belonging to novelist Jilly Cooper will come to auction at Christie's tomorrow in its Modern British and Irish Art sale.Cooper, who died in October last year, and her husband Leo began collecting...

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A. S. Byatt Archive Acquired by British Library finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…

A. S. Byatt Archive Acquired by British Library

The British Library has announced it has acquired the archive of novelist, short story writer, and literary critic Dame A. S. Byatt.Best known for her Booker prize-winning novel Possession: A Romance...

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Darby Ronning's Feminist Science Fiction Collection Wins Final Honey & Wax Prize finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…

Darby Ronning's Feminist Science Fiction Collection Wins Final Honey & Wax Prize

The winner of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize is Darby Ronning for The Alldera Collection: Feminist Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century.This is the last iteration of the annual prize...

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Two Exhibitions Celebrating Black Literary Life
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Two Exhibitions Celebrating Black Literary Life
 Open at Beinecke

Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has unveiled two exhibitions focusing on the experimental arts magazine Fire!!, and the nonprofit literary organization Cave Canem.

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First Edition Harry Potter Sold For $400,000 at Auction finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…

First Edition Harry Potter Sold For $400,000 at Auction

A first edition first printing of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has sold for $400,000 at Heritage Auctions, the second-highest auction price for the title behind the...

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The Thirty-Nine Steps, The Hobbit, and William Jevons Letter: The Week in Rare Books finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…

'The Thirty-Nine Steps', 'The Hobbit', and William Jevons Letter: 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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Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum Stars in New Art and Science Exhibit finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…

Francis Bacon’s 'Sylva Sylvarum' Stars in New Art and Science Exhibit

Opening next month at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, Plain Things Wonders marks 400 years since the publication of Francis Bacon’s influential experimental science text Sylva Sylvarum.

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Einstein Equation-Filled Letter Sold for $71,811

A handwritten letter by Albert Einstein filled with mathematical equations examining covariance and invariance in Hamiltonian mechanics sold for $71,811 at RR Auction's latest Fine Autographs and...

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Artistry of Bookmaking Highlighted in New Bedford Exhibition finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…

Artistry of Bookmaking Highlighted in New Bedford Exhibition

Boundless: The Book as Art opens tomorrow at The New Bedford Whaling Museum celebrating creativity in traditional book arts, including printing, typography, illustration, bookbinding, papermaking,...

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Walt Whitman’s Working Manuscript of O brood continental Leads Peter Harrington Poetry Catalogue finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…

Walt Whitman’s Working Manuscript of 'O brood continental' Leads Peter Harrington Poetry Catalogue

A working manuscript of Walt Whitman’s Civil War poem, working drafts of Dylan Thomas's work, and a cache of Leonard Cohen’s early poetry feature in Peter Harrington's new catalogue Poetry: The Heart...

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Original Art for Edgar Rice Burroughs Titles Leads Illustration Auction finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…

Original Art for Edgar Rice Burroughs Titles Leads Illustration Auction

Frank Earle Schoonover’s Where is the Key, Sola? painted for the first book edition of A Princess of Mars in 1917 and one of the earliest depictions of John Carter and Dejah Thoris is among the...

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Original Scott Joplin Agreement Leads New Exhibition Tracing History of Ragtime finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…

Original Scott Joplin Agreement Leads New Exhibition Tracing History of Ragtime

Ragtime: Cakewalk in Pianoland following ragtime's path from the musical traditions of enslaved Black people to the world's concert halls will go on show at The Morgan Library & Museum next month.

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Alain Riffaud's Molière Catalogue Wins 2026 ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…

Alain Riffaud's Molière Catalogue Wins 2026 ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography

Literary historian Alain Riffaud has won First Prize in the 19th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography for his Catalogue Molière: 1660–1673 published last year by the Le Mans cultureal association...

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