Berkeley, CA – PBA Galleries announces an auction of Fine Literature – Beats, the Counterculture and Bukowski on March 24th, 2022. The sale comprises over 400 lots of fine literature and ephemera, featuring scarce works from the counterculture and the Beat Generation, as well as a large selection…

Lowell, MA — We’re thrilled to announce the David Ruggles Prize, a new national book collecting prize to encourage and support young collectors of color. The three prizes—$1,000 grand prize, $500 second prize, and $250 third prize—will be awarded annually to applicants whose collections are deemed…

London – The 19th century poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) didn’t just preach free love, communal living and the rights of women – he also walked the talk. Expelled from Oxford for atheism, Shelley eloped in 1810 with Harriet Westbrook, a 16-year-old schoolgirl. A baby, and unhappy marriage (…

San Francisco — The Grabhorn Institute and Arion Press are thrilled to announce a $400,000, three-year gift from Denver philanthropist and book collector Taylor Kirkpatrick. This major gift—one of the three largest donations in the Institute’s history—will sponsor an ambitious series of pilot…

Los Angeles — The Getty Research Institute has received the donation of the papers of David Redden, the longest serving auctioneer at the venerable auction house Sotheby’s. The collection documents Redden’s entire career in the auction world.

Palm Springs, CA — Palm Springs is synonymous with golf, tennis, swimming, modernism, and Coachella. Now we’re adding rare books to the mix!  

New York — Swann Galleries’ Thursday, March 24 sale Printed Manuscript & African Americana sale will feature important material, from slavery through the civil rights era and into the current period.

London – Women have often been side lined in history, frequently having to fight for their voices to be heard. A new Bonhams sale, Women Through History, aims to highlight this struggle and celebrate the achievements of the women who changed the narrative. The sale, which will take place on…

Brooklyn, NY — We are delighted to announce the sixth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, a cash award of $1000 for an outstanding book collection built by a woman aged 30 or younger, anywhere in the United States.

Los Angeles – Images drawn from the Hebrew Bible (known to Christians as the “Old Testament”) were among the most popular subjects for Christian illuminated manuscripts in the Middle Ages.