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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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London — Forum Auctions is excited to present a private collection of exceptional culinary literary works that, as well as spanning five centuries, takes us on a fascinating gastronomic journey of discovery. The collection was carefully curated over a period of 40 years by the late Caroline…
The largest exhibition of Thomas Hardy objects ever displayed at one time has opened in the region he made famous through his fiction. Hardy’s Wessex: The landscapes that inspired a writer is being held across four museums in Dorset and Wiltshire and tells the story of how the region’s landscapes…
London – The name Peter Burra is now largely forgotten, yet before his untimely death in a plane crash in April 1937 he was regarded as one of Britain’s finest and most influential critics. At school and Oxford with the tenor Peter Pears he was friends of the composers Benjamin Britten and Lennox…
In our summer issue, we feature collectors of romance novels, both private and institutional. This is a topic we have broached once before, twelve years ago, but as mentioned in the current article, the genre has struggled to attain 'legitimacy' in the book collecting work, either because of the…
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Los Angeles – From fairytales to theme parks and Harry Potter to Game of Thrones, the Middle Ages have been mythologized, dramatized, and re-envisioned time and again, proving an irresistible point of inspiration for creative reinterpretations. The stories and images of…
Charlottesville, VA — Rare Book School is pleased to announce that Kenneth W. Rendell and Shirley McNerney have generously endowed an annual lecture on the importance of original manuscripts and rare books to human understanding. The Kenneth W. Rendell Endowed Lecture at Rare Book School will focus…
Five fabulous books comprise our summer issue’s Editor’s Shelf: two nonfiction, three fiction, all exceedingly bookish and highly recommended.
Often referred to as the most important book in English literature, Shakespeare's First Folio is an extraordinary piece of history dating back to 1623.
Minneapolis, MN — Please join us in congratulating the 2022 McKnight Book Artist Fellows, CB Sherlock and Corinne Teed! CB is a letterpress printer, book artist, and paper engineer, and Corinne is a research-based artist working in printmaking, book arts, time-based media, and social practice.
