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

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 ...

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

Our regular look at the new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.

A new catalogue from James Cummins Bookseller includes a previously unrecognized draft manuscript by Vita Sackville-West for A Note of Explanation, the miniature book she wrote for Queen Mary’s Dolls’ ...

The Surrealist Book: Tomorrow Lives in Mirrors at The Museum of Modern Art in New York will showcase the impact of artists’ books within the Surrealist m ...

Bob Dylan’s handwritten working lyrics for two songs from Blood on the Tracks have sold for $290,404 in RR Auction’s Remarkable Rarities s ...

Swann Auction Galleries Sale #2749: Fall auction of Rare & Important Travel Posters offers exceptional American, French, British, Italian, German, Canadian, Indian and Australian posters. If residing ...

On New Year’s Day in 1920, a horse-drawn wagon carrying a typewriter and 175 books pulled up outside of a basement on West 45th Street in Manhattan. Frances Steloff, a thirty-two-year old who had ...

Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Jamie Cumby, Assistant Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts in the History of Science collection at Linda Hall in Kansas City, Missouri. What is ...

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 ...