Tickets for Hallowe'en and Christmas events at the Charles Dickens Museum in London go on sale on October 1 with one-man performances of Dickens’s stories by James Swanton and Dominic Gerrard.Nancy’s Murder and Other Horrifying Tales performed by Dominic Gerrard (October 28 and 29) focuses on the…

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 businesswoman and philanthropist Sandy Lerner (b.1955) features …

The first of a two-part single-owner auction Reason and Revolution focusing on the history of scientific thought comes to Sotheby's next month.Featuring first editions from Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, and Isaac Newton including a rare surviving manuscript in Newton's…

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 sale.

Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Sky Duthie, proprietor of Sky Duthie Rare Books based in York, England:How did you get started in rare books?

Our regular look at the new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible by Harry Spillane

The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in London has announced its winter programme of exhibitions including a new major exhibition on the work and life of Moomin creator Tove Jansson.

More than 300 exhibitors will take part in this year's NY Art Book Fair which starts this evening with an Opening Night celebration at MoMA PS1.Running September 24–27, NYABF will host a wide range of independent and institutional publishers, antiquarian booksellers offering rare volumes, small…

The Raab Collection has acquired and is offering for sale a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Philadelphia scientist and Founding Father David Rittenhouse warning that the goal of the nation should be keeping out of wars and out of debt.

The Gaffurio Codex by composer and kapellmeister of Milan Cathedral Franchino Gaffurio headlines Il Ponte's Antique Books & Livres d'Artistes auction on September 30 and October 1.The famous Italian music theorist's work was written 1473-74 and brings together the main treatises of medieval and…