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Terry Belanger with RBS Board Member Dave Harper, SoFCB Senior Fellow Jane Raisch & Bob Craft at a special RBS event in Fall 2024.
$2m Scholarship Challenge Honours RBS Director Terry Belanger
Rare Book School has received a $1 million commitment from bibliophiles, collectors, and RBS supporters Cathy and Glen Miranker to honor its founding direct
Lee Mortimer, ed. New York Behind the Scenes. First Edition. New York: Ajax Publishing Co, 1939. From the Collection of Mark D. Tomasko.
Early New York City Guidebooks and Maps Go on Show at Grolier
A new exhibition at the Grolier Club opening next week explores how a growing New York City was portrayed for visitors and residents.
The Great Gatsby – Sylvia Beach copy
The Great Gatsby Centenary Celebrations at Princeton
Princeton University Library will mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby in April with various on- and off-campus pr
The bookplates of both Carolyn Wells (under) and the Library of Congress (over) in a first edition of Walt Whitman’s Memoranda of the War that Carolyn bequeathed to the library upon her death in 1942.
Carolyn Wells Celebrated in Library of Congress Program on Women Book Collectors 

Rebecca Rego Barry, the former longtime editor of Fine Books & Collections, now director of communications at The Raab Collection, will di
A view across the River Thames of Paul’s Wharf and St Paul’s Pier from Bankside, with St Paul’s Cathedral in the background, by George Washington Wilson (1860-1900)
Historic England Acquires Collection of Earliest Photographs of England
Historic England has acquired the Janette Rosing Collection of England, a world-class collection of some of the finest earliest landscape photography of
Ernest H. Shepard, Eeyore has three sticks on the ground, ca. 1928. Ink and graphite on board.
García Márquez Juvenalia, Magic Lantern 'Alice', and Le Petit Prince at Harry Ransom Center
An interdisciplinary exhibition examining the history, artistry, and impact of children’s literature has opened at The Harry Ransom Center at The Universit
Robert Motherwell, Spanish Elegy I, 1975, Lithograph
Robert Motherwell's Literary Influences Revealed in New Exhibition
The New York Public Library will open an exhibition of a selection of
Dr Hannah Thomas with the Bar Convent Arma Christi
Rare Medieval Arma Christi Scroll Discovered in Box at York’s Bar Convent
An unassuming box in the archives at York’s Bar Convent has yielded the discovery of an illuminated medieval scroll known as an Arma Christi, featuring the p
The Einstein tongue photo
Einstein's 'Tongue' Photo Sold for $338,630
The famous photograph of Albert Einstein with his tongue out, has been sol
The new statue of Aphra Behn
Unveiling of New Aphra Behn Statue by Her Majesty The Queen
Her Majesty The Queen visits Canterbury in Kent today to unveil a statue of Aphra Behn, the firs