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'Fantastic Four' No. 1
Fantastic Four No. 1 Sold for $2m
One of the world’s finest copies of the first issue of Fantastic Four has sold for $2.04 Million at Heritage Auctions's Comics & Comic Art auction.
A complete set of 1968 Topps baseball cards
Rare Baseball Card Sets Lead Heritage's Fall Sports Auction
A complete set of 1968 Topps baseball cards leads the October 4 - 6 sal
The 1954 cover of the first edition of Lord of the Flies, sold at Sotheby's in 2021 for £3,780
William Golding's Notebooks, Letters, and Lord of the Flies Manuscripts in New Anniversary Exhibition
Notebooks belonging to Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding and letters to his Lord of the Flies
Photograph of Martha, Amalia and Sigmund Freud on holiday at Altaussee, Austria. 1905. Photographer unknown.
Freud's Love Letters Featured in New Exhibition About the Women in His Life
Manuscripts, letters, diaries, photographs, and sketchbooks will be centrestage in a new exhibition which will celebrate the women who featured in the life of
Typed letter in German signed by Albert Einstein
Letters by Robert E. Lee, Einstein, Emerson, and U.S. Presidents to Auction
University Archives' September 18 Rare Signed Autographs, Manuscripts, Books & Memorabilia auction will also feature items consigned by the Manu
A typed insert from The Jungle Book proofs with Kipling’s late corrections
Kipling’s The Jungle Book Proofs and Wilkie Collins’ Travelling Desk Acquired by Cambridge University Library
Page proofs of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book and Wilkie Collins' travelling desk are among a r
Jessie Tarbox Beals, Washington Mews, [1918], photographic postcard
Greenwich Village Counterculture Chronicled at New York Public Library
Becoming Bohemia: Greenwich Village, 1912–1923 at the NYPL will focus on the extraordinary rise and fall of the first large-scale countercultural en
Tim Cooke
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Chief Executive Officer to Step Down
The CEO of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Tim Cooke, has announced that he will step down from the role in November after serving almost seven years.
Auctioneer Richard Winterton with the Harry Potter book
Harry Potter Bought For £3.50 Sells For £8,000 at Auction
A copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has sold for £8,340 at auction, 27 years after its owner bought it brand new for just a few pounds.
Clarence H. White (1871–1925) portrait of Belle da Costa Greene, 1911.
New Exhibition Pays Tribute to Leading Librarian Belle da Costa Greene
The Morgan Library & Museum's new major exhibition will focus on the life and career of its inaugural director, Belle da Costa Greene, the first retrospective of her life on the 100th anniversa