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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has made an award of $25,000 to San Francisco Center for…
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Firsts London 2024, the rare book fair at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea, London, runs May 16 - 19 with 'The Art of the Book' as the theme for this year.The Fair will gather more than 100 international dealers who will be bringing items including bejewelled bindings, pop-up books, Japanese…
Senate House Library has acquired a rare copy of the first cheap edition of Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop from 1848, featuring 34 original Victorian pen and ink drawings.
Two campaigners from British environmental activist group Just Stop Oil today took a hammer to the glass protecting the copy of the Magna Carta in the British Library's Treasures Gallery in London.
Rare Book School at University of Virginia has released its 2022-23 Annual Report chronicling its 40th anniversary year and developments including its move back into the newly renovated Edgar Shannon Library.
Highlights from Potter & Potter Auctions' June 8 Magicana sale featuring books and other material from the collection of the late Peter Hackhofer includes:* The Expert at the Card Table by S.W. Erdnase (pseudonym). Chicago: Author, 1902. First edition. Illustrated with over 100 drawings “…
Correspondence between mathematics colleagues Albert Einstein and Herman Müntz will be up for auction at the Books, Maps & Manuscripts auction on June 13 at Stockholms Auktionsverk.
The English Vineyard Vindicated by John Evelyn and John Rose, one of the earliest works on English viticulture, goes under the hammer at Chiswick Auctions later this month.
The Folio Society’s latest launch - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller - features illustrations from award-winning artist Julie Dillon, plus an introduction from classicist Emily Wilson.A retelling of The Iliad, Madeline Miller’s 2011 debut novel explores the story of the Trojan War…
I entered the autograph field in 1985, a complete novice. The lay of the land was much different than it is today. It was indeed the heyday of the great autograph dealers, and boy did they have staggering inventories. So much was available then. And these they would offer the public in in-depth…
Ronald Reagan's copy of Don Quixote is among numerous presidential lots coming to auction on May 15 at University Archives' Rare Signed Autographs, Manuscripts, Books & Memorabilia sale.
