Powell Books

Americana

Clemens business card

Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln Memorabilia to Auction

Post-Washita General Custer Letter Sold at Auction for $550,000

Gettysburg Rail Pass and Lincoln’s Last Message to Congress to Auction

Visual Art

From Superman #75

Original Art from 'The Death of Superman' to Auction

A Chicana Printmaker’s Radical Archive

Matisse’s Late-Career Cut-Outs Show an Artist Overcoming Limitations

Rare Books

The Grabhorn Press edition of 'Leaves of Grass'

Grabhorn Press 'Leaves of Grass': Rare Book of the Week

Sacred Hindu Shikshapatri Text On Tour to Mark Bicentenary

Lexington Deed, Banknotes Album, and Josephus Translation: The Week in Rare Books

Book People

A copy of Zritel, the literary journal suppressed during the 1905 Revolution in Russia, offered by Bernard Quaritch

Firsts London 2026 Preview Highlights

William Tyndale, Time Travel, and American Western Comics: March Books Roundup

Bright Young Collectors: Kierra Duncan

Book Arts

Antony Gormley's Tree for Waiting for Godot on an upland bog in the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark Co. Fermanagh at the July 2019 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Maps

WWII Operation Bigot map

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Auctions

Nelson's Order of Battle for Trafalgar

Horatio Nelson's Trafalgar Order of Battle Sold for $189,888 at Auction

Virginia Woolf Letter Dismissing Her Work to Auction

Queen Elizabeth I Letter, Stuyvesant Land Grant, and Jefferson–Madison Appointment to Auction

Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Photographs

Edward Steichen’s Balzac, The Open Sky, 11 P.M. (1908) (estimate: $700,000–$1m)

Edward Steichen’s 'Balzac' Leads Photography Masterworks Auction

Cartes de Visite: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Photography Collection of Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner to Auction

Exhibitions

A spread from the short story Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press at Charleston

New Exhibition Focuses on The Irish Literary Revival

National Library of Scotland’s Centenary Tour Heads to Shetland