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An archive spanning six decades of Tom Verlaine’s working life including lyric drafts, handwritten…
The Bodleian Libraries' forthcoming exhibition Pets & their People will explore why humans keep…
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Scripts from The Bing Crosby Show feature in Sotheby's' Swinging on a Star: The Private Collection of Kathryn and Bing Crosby auction which also includes the singer's musical arrangements, photo albums of golf tournaments, and his hats.Taking place on 18 December, the sale includes a set of 11…
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One of the most popular pieces of festive storytelling will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions December 12–15 celebrating the 60th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas which was first shown in December 9, 1965.Featuring in its The Art of Disney auction among various other examples of…
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Leading RR Auction’s December Fine Autographs & Artifacts sale are around 40 signed portraits of Albert Einstein including etchings, lithographs, letters, and photographs.
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Bellmans is selling an Australian single-owner collection of first edition novels by H. P. Lovecraft in exceptionally fine condition in its Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts auction on December 3.
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Catawiki has started a new way for collectors to experience the holiday season with its Books & Historical Memorabilia Advent Calendar, a 24-day sequence of curated 24-hour auctions. Running until December 24, a new themed auction opens every evening, each highlighting a different facet of…
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Rare pulp magazines and 'ashcans' from the Dr. Richard Meli Pulp Collection will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions December 4-6.
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A major new initiative to save and restore poet Robert Burns’s Ellisland Farm has been launched by The Robert Burns Ellisland Trust.The international fundraising 'The Saving the Home of Auld Lang Syne' campaign hopes to preserve the historic building in Scotland where Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne,…
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The Apple Computer Company Partnership Agreement joins founding father Rufus King's United States Constitution draft at Christie's' We the People: America at 250 auction.
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A first edition, first issue of Charles Dickens's 1843 A Christmas Carol leads Bellmans’ Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts auction on December 3.
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Christmas celebrations are already underway at the Charles Dickens Museum in London which is the home in which Dickens himself and his family celebrated yuletide.Over the festive period an extension of the current Showtime! exhibition will be on view in Dickens’s study, exploring Dickens’s…