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Photos in the public domain (collage)
BooksOctober 27, 2025

How a Dark Summer Gave Birth to Frankenstein and the Vampire

Photo © Sotheby's (detail)
BooksApril 16, 2024

A New Auction Record in Sight for Sherlock Holmes

Brothers Grimm (Jacob and Wilhelm), Children's and Household Tales. Collected by the Brothers Grimm. 2 volumes. Berlin: secondary school bookstore 1812-1815. Photo © Venator & Hanstein (detail)
BooksMarch 21, 2024

Once Upon a Time in Cologne: A World Record for the Brothers Grimm

Left: Jim Spencer, Head of Books at Hansons Auctioneers, with the proof copy of Harry Potter. Right: Uncorrected proof copy of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' sold for a total of £13,860. Photos © Hansons Auctioneers
BooksMarch 12, 2024

13p Harry Potter Copy Sells for £14,000

Wilhelm Amberg (1822-1899), Lecture from Goethe's Werther, 1870, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Photo in the public domain (detail)
BooksDecember 15, 2023

Werther Fever: How Goethe Influenced his Contemporaries

#35 Antique Books: Between the Lines. Photo © Barnebys Group
BooksMarch 31, 2023

Podcast Ep #35 Antique Books: Between the Lines

Image © Manhattan Rare Book Company (detail)Sponsored
BooksDecember 12, 2022

Benjamin Franklin to Marilyn Monroe: Important Books at Auction

Ernest Hemingway, ca. 1953. Photo public domain (detail)
BooksAugust 9, 2022

From Detectives to Dystopia: 3 Authors and Their Top Works

The 6 Nobel Prize for Literature laureates. Details of the photos in the article.
BooksJune 23, 2022

6 Women Who Have Won the Nobel Prize in Literature

Otto Eckmann (1865-1902), cover for the magazine Jugend, number 14 of the year 1896, published on April 4. Photo public domain (detail)
BooksMay 16, 2022

Jugend: The Birth of an Artistic 'Youth' Movement

Lifting the lid on the most controversial works of early erotic literature
BooksSeptember 12, 2016

Lifting the lid on the most controversial works of early erotic literature

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