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New York-based rare book antiquarian Richard C. Ramer (1942-2026) has died after running his…
Sotheby’s in New York has sold the rare Rothschild Vienna Mahzor Hebrew prayerbook for $6…
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The sales I'll be watching this week feature Bill Reese's Herman Melville collection, books from the Collection of Jay I. Kislak, and more.
The first trailer for the forthcoming adaptation of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry has been released by Vertical Entertainment, and it looks delightful. Slated to hit theaters on October 7, the film, based on the 2014 bestseller by Gabrielle Zevin, stars Kunal Nayyar, Lucy Hale, Christina Hendricks…
London — The Folio Society, the publisher of award-winning, beautifully produced illustrated books, has revealed Evangeline Gallagher as the winner of The Folio Book Illustration Award 2022. Launched this year to mark The Folio Society’s 75th anniversary, the competition showcases illustration…
London — The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) announces winners of the 2022 ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography:
1st Prize worth US$10,000:
Jack Baldwin, A Catalogue of Fifteenth-Century Printed Books in Glasgow Libraries and Museums, 2 vols (Woodbridge: Boydell and…
Projects around Britain are making available to the public rare manuscripts covering everything from medieval medicine to the earliest example of Scots Gaelic as well as Jewish diaspora material.
Boston — The 2022 edition of the Boston Rare Book and Ephemera Fair, the “Satellite Show,” will be held on Saturday, November 12 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116, a short walk from the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Hynes…
If you haven’t seen the Giant Mainz Bible, here’s your chance. On October 6, the Library of Congress will be hosting a webinar called Opening the Case: The Giant Bible of Mainz at the Library of Congress (LC). The program, which runs from 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EST, “will present new research about…
Berkeley, CA — On September 22, 2022, PBA Galleries will host a sale with over 500 lots of fine literature and ephemera featuring scarce works from the counterculture and the Beat Generation, including a large section of rock and psychedelic posters. Featured as well are rare editions from Charles…
This week may be a short one, but it is jam-packed with interesting auctions.
Boston — RR Auction's September Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale boasts an extraordinary selection of over 900 items, with a special focus on Hollywood, classical music, and icons of history.
