library of congress

Yesterday was another full--productive, surprising, humbling--day of looking at books.
The Library of Congress announces the opening of the Swann Gallery and the Herblock Gallery on Friday, March 18, 2011.
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS), the Center for the Book and the Rare Books and Special Collections Division (the L
The Washington Haggadah Is Subject of New PublicationNew Edition Includes Facsimile of Library’s Rare Illuminated Manuscript
February 7, 2011 -- National Book Festival to be Two-Day Event, Sept. 24-25
January 31, 2011 -- Rare Revolutionary War-Era Map is David Rubenstein Gift to Library of Congress. Abel Buell Map First to Show “Stars and Stripes.”
Pat Saine of Blue Plate Books in Winchester, Virginia, got more than he bargained for when a missionary with a box of old books walked into h
Last month, the University of North Carolina press released A History of the Book in America, volume 2, which was actually the last in a se