Sometime around 1886, Oscar Wilde was assigned to write a book review of Percy H. Fitzgerald's book, The Book Fancier: or, The romance of book collecting, published that year by S. Low, Marston,…
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As literary artifacts go, this one evokes childlike delight:
Muriel Spark is less read in America than in her native Great Britain, which is a shame since she is one of the "
New York — Doyle’s Rare Books, Autographs and Maps timed auction closing on November 24, 2020 b
Opera fans might hit a high note when they hear this: a collection of musical scores from the personal library of the legendary American-born Greek soprano Maria Callas is being
New York — A beautiful and very rare early Renaissance manuscript of two of Plato’s greatest dialogues, Phaedo, known to ancient readers as On the Soul, and Gorgias, tran
Chadds Ford, PA – Philadelphia, America’s first capital and home to Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, is steeped in political, military and social history.
New York — Pandemics, sadly, are nothing new. The Black Death, for example, lasted on and off from 1331 until the middle of the 18th century.
New York — On Thursday, June 11, Swann Galleries will hold a sale of Fine Photographs that features twentieth-century masterworks, landscapes, feminist and Latin American photographers, as we
