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The library of American-born poet Ruth Fainlight and her late husband the writer Alan Sillitoe…
A new exhibition opening today at the London home of Charles Dickens brings together the women he…
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Debuting later this week at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is an exhibition called Mapping Fiction that highlights the way in which mapped spaces have played a role in fiction, e.g., Joyce’s Dublin, Tolkien’s Middle-Earth, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous island.
A trio of sales I'll be keeping an eye on this week:
Fine Books & Ephemera at New England Book Auctions ends on Tuesday, January 11. The 192 lots include a number of lots of Limited Editions Club titles, a late-seventeenth-century sammelband of theological works, and a very wide range of other…
San Francisco, CA – Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to present the Holbrook T. Mitchell Collection of Books & Manuscripts on January 29, 2022. From the estate of a Northern California collector, the auction features 85 lots of antique or vintage written works in various languages from…
For our current issue, Alex Johnson talked to Kate McCaffrey, assistant curator at Hever Castle, the childhood home of Anne Boleyn, about a major discovery she made last year while studying two illuminated books of hours once owned by the former queen. In this short video, meet McCaffrey and castle…
Today we’re talking with John Hill, author of the elegant new book, Buildings in Print: 100 Influential & Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books (Prestel, 2021). This the seventh book by the influential architecture blogger (see: A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books), and in it Hill delivers a…
Pasadena, CA — Rare Books LA is hosting a free panel discussion: THE NOVEL OF THE CENTURY: Reflecting on James Joyce’s Ulysses on the 100th Anniversary of its Publication.
Thursday, January 27
1 pm PT / 4 pm ET
Ulysses is considered one of the most important works of modernist…
New York — A reflection on the rich inner life of a beloved public figure, Bonhams announces the sale of pioneering Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal library. Slated for January 19 - 27, the online-only sale will feature more than 1,000 personal books belonging to the late…
Boston — RR Auction's first sale of the new year brings over 1,000 rare and remarkable lots to the auction block!
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Melanie Shi, who won Honorable Mention in the 2021 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for women collectors aged 30 and younger.
Where are you from / where do you live?
I grew up between the United States and China, lived in New York for 6…
Mendocino, CA — Partners Gallery presents an exhibit of three guest artists taking place at the gallery in the historic Beacon Building in Mendocino in January and February 2022. The books, broadsides, and job work on display of these letterpress artists reside in the realm of book arts—a genre…
