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Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair returns to the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea from May 14 through May…
Opening this summer at The Huntington will be its new exhibition This Land Is... which will focus…
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New York — Swann Galleries’ third annual auction dedicated to the art, material culture, and history of the LGBTQ+ community will be held on Thursday, August 19, bringing to market both familiar artists as well as fresh, unusual and infrequently seen material.
A new campaign to erect a statue of arguably England’s first professional female writer in her hometown is now underway.
Born in Canterbury, Kent, Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was a prolific playwright, novelist, and poet (not to mention spy for Charles II) who was celebrated in her day and is buried in…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Holly Segar, proprietor of A Fox's Tale / Caroliniana Rare Books (ABAA) in Aiken, South Carolina:
How did you get started in rare books?
A trio of sales on Thursday, August 5 to watch this week:
New York — Poster Auctions International’s (PAI) second sale of the year, on July 20th, finished at $1.9 million in sales. Rare Posters Auction LXXXIV demonstrated a continued passion for the masters of the poster—namely, Alphonse Mucha.
As readers of FB&C know, the Morgan Library is currently hosting a gorgeous exhibition of fine bindings, Bound for Versailles: The Jayne Wrightsman Bookbindings Collection, through September 26. Curator John T. McQuillen wrote this essay about his experience with the collection for our summer…
Some may hear the phrase ‘farm to table’ and think only of a sweet gastropub in the countryside, but for one group of scholars it calls to mind a recently completed, four-year project to explore seventeenth- and eighteenth-century culinary culture. Before ‘Farm to Table’: Early Modern Foodways…
Leyburn, North Yorkshire, England — A first edition, first impression of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone sold for £80,000 (plus buyer’s premium), one of a number of outstanding results seen in Tennants Auctioneers’ Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on 28th July.
Rick Gekoski is both a book dealer and a writer, often applying his pen and his wit to the cloistered world of rare books, manuscripts, and archives. His latest, published in the UK earlier this month, is called Guarded by Dragons, a reference to a Saul Bellow quote he uses as the book’s epigraph…
Hudson, New York — Furthermore grants in publishing, a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund, is pleased to announce the 2021 Alice Award Short List:
The Art of Winold Reiss: An Immigrant Modernist
New-York Historical Society
E. McKnight Kauffer: The Artist in Advertising
Cooper Hewitt,…
