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Boston-based RR Auction has announced the sale for $106,985 of a rare and pristine Apple Computer Company check signed by Steve Jobs in 1976.
The check, dated July 8, 1976, was payable to Crampton, Remke & Miller, Inc. for $175 and is filled out in type and signed by Jobs himself.
An academic wager on Super Bowl LVII has been fulfilled with the opening of the exhibition Promoting Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society and Science in Early America, at Kansas City's Linda Hall Library,
More than 100 international antiquarian dealers will descend on the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea for Firsts, London’s Rare Book Fair, running this year May 19-21.
Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Georgia Brown at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee:
What is your role at your institution?
Nearly two centures after his death, the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe is in the running to win the 67th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Austrian singers Teya and Salena will be representing their country in the second semi-final on May 11 with Who The Hell Is Edgar?, a song in which the 19th…
When you hear the phrase “book collector” what image comes to mind?
A gruff, older man sitting in a hole-in-the-wall storefront, surrounded by dusty books on overstuffed shelves? An academic with lots of letters after her name and a well-appointed library in her home? A new-money millionaire…
The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) has opened its groundbreaking exhibition Fukuda Kodōjin: Japan’s Great Poet and Landscape Artist. Fukuda Kodōjin (1865–1944) was among a handful of scholar-artists who continued the tradition of literati painting (nanga) after 1900.
A collection of 297 stage costume designs by Sally Jacobs (1932-2020) comes for sale at Chiswick Auctions’ sale of Books and Works on Paper on May 24. The archive, that includes mixed media designs for important stage Royal Shakespeare Company productions from the 1960s, is expected to sell…
The full catalog of the auction of bookseller and writer Larry McMurtry's partial personal estate has been released by Vogt Auction Galleries, featuring around 300 items from his home in Archer City, Texas.
Among the lots featuring his firearms, boots, memorabilia from his Hollywood productions,…
The Raab Collection has announced the discovery of an unknown and apparently unpublished F. Scott Fitzgerald letter from April 22, 1924, written to a long-lost cousin. The handwritten note touches on family, religion, women, and other subjects, and shows a personal and unreserved side of Fitzgerald…
