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Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac will explore the writer’s personal life from…
After its cancellation last year following the Los Angeles fires, the California International…
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The Folio Society will release the first-ever illustrated edition of the groundbreaking novel The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Hugo Award-winning Becky Chambers on January 25. Limited to 750 hand numbered and signed copies, it is illustrated by the award-winning Zoë van Dijk who was…
Forum Auctions is offering the original annotated typescript of John Steinbeck's first novel, Cup of Gold which shows edits and comments by Steinbeck alongside those made by some of his editors and friends.The typescript is from the Mary Steinbeck Dekker Family Collection and will be…
The Printing Charity has announced that Nicky Morgan, the Rt Hon the Baroness Morgan of Cotes, has accepted the charity’s invitation to hold the office of President for 2024.Baroness Morgan is a former Conservative MP and Minister, and now a member of the House of Lords. Her portfolio career has,…
At Forum Auctions on Thursday, January 25, 235 lots of Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper, Including Books from Sir William Stirling-Maxwell's Library. A first edition copy of Darwin's Origin of Species is expected to lead the way at £50,000–75,000.
The long-standing friendship between poet Langston Hughes and pioneer photographer Griffith J. Davis is at the centre of the new exhibition The Ways of Langston Hughes: Griff Davis and Black Artists in the Making at the Schomburg Center, a research division of The New York Public Library.
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors.Indigenous North American Type by Kevin KingA fascinating celebration of the typography of the Indigenous languages of North America based on ongoing collaboration with local language communities.…
The National Library of Ireland has announced the acquisition of The O’Brien Press Collection and its archive which includes first edition titles from Marita Conlon-McKenna, Éamonn McThomáis, Eoin Colfer, Siobhán Parkinson, Polly Devlin, Frank McGuinness and William Trevor.
The Raab Collection has announced that it has acquired the original autopsy report and unpublished medical notes from the assassination of President William McKinley belonging to Dr. Herman Matzinger, who conducted McKinley’s autopsy.
The third and final library of the late Robin de Beaumont, former President of The Private Libraries Association, comes to Bonhams next week.A benefactor to the British Museum, "Robin de Beaumont (1926-2023) was a leading expert in Victorian decorative bindings and his Chelsea library was described…
An extraordinary selection of rarities from one of the world’s most highly regarded single-author collections, the Winston S. Churchill Collection of Steve Forbes, is on sale at The Winter Show 2024, taking place at The Armoury New York.Offered by London-based rare book dealer Peter Harrington, the…
