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Frank Frazetta’s cover painting known as Man Ape for the 1967 Lancer/Ace Conan paperback sold for $…
A first-of-its-kind, bilingual exhibition at the NYPL will showcase Puerto Rican life and culture…
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The National Trust’s annual insect pests report has found that Silverfish (Lepisma saccharina), which feed on books, paper and cotton, retained top spot with recorded numbers rising by six per cent.The report collates information gathered by house staff around the Trust, helping the charity to…
A nearly 400-year-old letter that documents the mythologized 'purchase' of the island of Manhattan from the Indigenous peoples who inhabited it is on view now through July 14, at the New-York Historical Society.
The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History looks at how the Arctic has been visually depicted from the 16th century to the present, and runs through July 13 at the New York Public Library.
Inspired by the life and work of Beacon Hill-based abolitionist Harriet Bell Hayden, Framing Freedom: The Harriet Hayden Albums at the Boston Athenaeum brings together rarely seen works and examines Black abolitionists’ public identities, private lives, visual culture, and social activism…
John le Carré's desks, tables, chairs and other personal effects from his Cornish estate Tregiffian will go under the hammer at Roseberys London on March 20.
Cambridge University Library will draw on its collections of crime fiction for a new exhibition opening later this month.
A historic report detailing the development of the atomic bomb signed by J. Robert Oppenheimer and 23 other minds behind the Manhattan Project has been sold for $53,594 by Boston-based RR Auction.
![Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128 [1725], Catalogue no.1. The autograph manuscript of the full score, the only surviving working manuscript, with annotations also by Bach's eldest son, Wilehelm Friedemann.](https://cdn.finebooksmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/mobile_listed_teaser_thumb_768x735_/public/media-images/2024-03/bach.jpg?itok=f5spS-f2)
Bodleian Libraries has announced the acquisition through the Acceptance in lieu scheme of the autograph of Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantata for Ascension Day, Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein (BWV 128).
The number of titles targeted for censorship rose 65 percent in 2023 compared to 2022, reaching the highest levels ever documented by the American Library Association (ALA). The new numbers released today show efforts to censor 4,240 unique book titles in schools and libraries. This tops the…
Given only six weeks to create the Star Wars movie score, composer John Williams ended up with 88 minutes of music which translated to about 800 pieces of sheet music. After recording with the London Symphony Orchestra, the score was sent to be edited at Samuel Goldwyn Studios by Lionel Newman,…
