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The Folger Shakespeare Library’s Board of Governors has announced that they have appointed Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper as the new director of the 92-year-old institution following a 10-month international search.
Generations of readers in the UK have grown up reading Ladybird books, highly illustrated pocket-sized hardbacks at pocket-money prices which provided children with an introduction to reading, fiction, and all aspects of society in an accessible but authoritative way.
Highlights from Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books auction on June 13 include:* Laurent Fries, after Martin Waldseemuller, Oceani Ocidentalis seu Terre Nove Tabula, double-page woodcut map of the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, and southeast North America, Lyon…
The Nag Hammadi Codex I Binding, dating back to 4th century Egypt, goes on sale as part of Christie's' Manuscript Masterpieces from The Schøyen Collection on June 11.The sheep leather book binding with papyrus cartonnage, which measures 300 x 150mm closed and 300 x 334mm fully opened, is the…
The private library assembled by attorney William A. Strutz, including the only privately owned copy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in original pink boards, will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions on June 27.
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Javier Ortega of Michael R. Thompson Rare Books in Los Angeles:How did you get started in rare books?
Crafting the Ballets Russes will draw on the Robert Lehman private collection of autograph manuscripts of Western music on deposit at The Morgan Library & Museum, in particular early 20th century ballet materials.
A rare lead-lined naval signal book from the First World War has been bought by The National Museum for the Royal Navy after being listed in an Oxfam bookshop in Bath, England.
Swann Galleries' May 23 Focus on Women sale includes books, prints, original art, photographs, ephemera related to suffrage and feminism, and archives produced by women from the 16th to the 21st century.
BIBLIO, the independent marketplace for antiquarian and rare books, has announced the public launch of its new The Auction & Book Sales Archive (ABSA).
