Books from the Crypt

Visual Art

Original poster artwork for the John F. Kennedy Center's Imagination Celebration

Maurice Sendak Masterpieces Lead Illustration Art Sale

Maurice Sendak's Works and Collection to Auction to Fund Special Fellowship

Small Press Experimental Poetry Focus at New Grolier Exhibition

Auctions

Title opening of the Kelmscott Press edition of "Reynard the Fox" (1892).

Gutenberg Bible Leaf, Katherine Dunham Correspondence, J.P. Morgan's Jewels: Auction Preview

Barbara Taylor Bradford Inscribed First Editions, Writing Desks, and Typewriter to Auction

Andersen Rarities, NASA Photos, Qur’an Manuscripts: Auction Preview

Photographs

Buzz Aldrin on the Moon with the photographer (€28,160)

Buzz Aldrin Portrait, V2, and First Earthrise Top Bonhams Moon Photo Sale

Photo-Based Work Inspired by Emily Dickinson's Garden on View

Julia Margaret Cameron's Images for Tennyson to Auction

Maps

Geographia, Sebastian Münster, 1540

Sunderland Collection Rare Cartographical Loan on Display

16th Century Cartographer's Library Recreated at TEFAF Maastricht

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Rare Maps and Atlases

Book Arts

Texas A&M University promotion for the Edward Gorey exhibit

New Exhibition of First Editions and Artworks Celebrates Edward Gorey Centenary

Karen Wirth's Book Art Inspired by Architectural Forms Goes on Show

DogEar Festival Returns to Celebrate Artists’ Books and Printmaking

Exhibitions

Jonathan Michael Square browses Uncle Tom's Cabin

Phillis Wheatley's Poems and 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' Featured in The Afric-American Picture Gallery

Maya Angelou and Malcolm X Manuscripts On Show in Schomburg Center Centennial Celebrations

Da Vinci and John Coltrane Manuscripts Lead Exhibition of New Acquisitions at the Morgan

Rare Books

An example from the Steinbeck trove of letters and association copies

John Steinbeck Letters and Inscribed Copies Among New Huntington Acquisitions

The Nahj al-Faradis: Rare Book of the Week

All Four Shakespeare Folios to Auction with £4.5m Estimate

Book People

Fall book photo

Blooks,  Jane Austen, and America’s First Public Library in Rare Book School's Summer Lecture Series

Bright Young Librarians: Jenna Silver

Katherine Mansfield, Charles Darwin, and Amadou Hampâté Bâ Archives Added to UNESCO Register

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Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Americana

Hand-edited manuscript leaf by Henry David Thoreau for Cape Cod

Rare Henry David Thoreau Handwritten Manuscript from 'Cape Cod' to Auction

Broadside Announcing Martial Law During 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre to Auction

Rare Documents from American Revolution Under the Hammer at Bonhams