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The Library of Congress has acquired rare music and lyric sketches from composer Harold Arlen and…
The New York Public Library has announced plans to commemorate the semiquincentennial of the…
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Ulises Carrión Bogard, one of the most influential of all modern artists engaged in exploring the book form, is celebrated in the new exhibition Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond at Princeton University Library (PUL) running through June 13.
Hundreds of posters and ephemera which form the Poems on the Underground archive, including letters from leading poets, has been donated to Cambridge University Library.
A rare handwritten manuscript leaf from Henry David Thoreau's Walden will go under the hammer at RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction featuring over 650 items.
The Yiddish Book Center has announced that Aaron Lansky, the organization’s founder and MacArthur Foundation 'Genius Grant' winner, will retire from his role as president in June 2025. Susan Bronson, the Center’s long-time executive director, will assume the position of president. Following…
Submissions for the eighth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, a cash award of $1000 for an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a young woman, are now open.
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Sorrel Dunn of James Arsenault & Company in Maine.How did you get started in rare books?
Neil Gaiman, creator of Sandman and best-selling author of American Gods, Good Omens and Coraline will auction some of his prized pieces at Heritage Auctions' March 14 sale at which Gaiman will be in attendance.
Finnish author Tove Jansson is best known as the woman behind the Moomins universe but Bruun Rasmussen’s March 4 auction presents a colorful still-life by her from 1939.Estimated at DKK 350,000-400,000 ($51,000 - $58,000), the painting features a vase decorated with stylised grapes, and crisp,…
At Chiswick Auctions on Tuesday, February 27, 251 lots of Books & Works on Paper, including a late-seventeenth-century manuscript map of Bermondsey on vellum estimated at £3,000–5,000. A deluxe copy of Francis Carco's Quelques-Unes (1931) with illustrations by Louis Legrand is expected to sell…
A letter from 1793 signed by both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson brought $21,780, a first edition of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) sold for $22,990, and a first edition, three-volume set of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations realized $16,940 in three days of sales held by…
