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Seven Great Maps (And a Panorama Box)

2008-12-17  Dear Friends, We would like to draw your attention to a highly select group of some of our finest maps, viewable from this special page www.martayanlan.com/seven_great_maps.htm  »MORE

First print publication of Doris Lessing's 'On Not Winning the Nobel Prize'

2008-12-11  Doris Lessing’s Nobel Lecture is now available for the first time in a signed letter press limited edition available for Christmas this year, featuring wood engraved artwork by Abigail Rorer.  »MORE

Fine Books & Collections Names Editor

2008-12-10  Fine Books & Collections magazine has announced the appointment of Ann J. Loftin as editor of Fine Books & Collections magazine and its newly-expanded digital.  »MORE

Rare & Important Art Nouveau Posters

2008-12-08  Swann's highly anticipated auction of Rare and Important Art Nouveau Posters is now viewable online.  »MORE

How will digitisation shape the future of publishing?

2008-12-03  Frankfurt Book Fair survey reveals online bookselling as most important development of the past 60 years.  »MORE

Hollywood's Golden Age rules in $2.17m Movie Poster Auction

2008-12-02  Flying Down To Rio one sheet leads strong year-end sale in Dallas, Nov. 7-9  »MORE

Fine Books & Collections Launches E-letter, Blog

2008-12-01  Durham, NC. Fine Books & Collections magazine announced today that it plans expand its online offering of information for collectors, while at the same time reduce its print schedule for the magazine to annually.  »MORE

New Exhibition Celebreates 200th Anniversary of Lincoln's Birth

2008-11-18  Collecting material on Abraham Lincoln has, for some, been both an obsessive and competitive pursuit—so much so that, in honor of his 200th birthday, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens pays homage to collectors of so-called Lincolniana in a special exhibition in the Library West Hall.  »MORE

International Codex Book Fair and Symposium

2008-09-10  September 3, 2008 -- The world’s leading book artisans will be featured at the CODEX Foundation’s biennial fair and symposium on February 9 – 11, 2009. The three-day event held at the University of California, Berkeley campus is open to the public and will focus on “Considering the Book as a Work of Art.”  »MORE