Based entirely upon the Lilly Library's collections, a new work joins the ranks of bibliographical and historical publications that document the long, complicated history of Mexico-Texas relations before 1849. Lilly Texana: One Hundred Eighty Broadsides and Other Ephemera Relating to Texas, Printed and Published in Mexico before 1849 in the Lilly Library of Indiana University, by Everett C. Wilkie, Jr., describes a significant body of materials in the Lilly Library's collections pertaining to Texas history that until now has been generally unrecognized or not reported to exist in the copy described.  Most of the included items are not found in Thomas Streeter's seminal Bibliography of Texas, the primary work in this area, or in other sources.  Several entries represent the discovery of another copy of an item that Streeter believed to exist in only a single example.

National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, recently sold a Maurice Sendak pencil on paper sketch for an impressive hammer price of $4,250. This 1974 (9" by 7 1/2") sketch by Sendak is matted and includes Sendak's signature below the drawing as well as an explanatory note to the animators in blue ball point pen. This drawing served as a study for the animators who worked on Sendak's "Really Rosie" (1975) video musical cartoon based on the Nutshell Library with music by Carole King.

Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey also Includes Specially Commissioned Building Models Showing Palladio's Profound Influence on American Architecture

“The best book fair in the world.” - Andy Rooney, CBS “60 Minutes”

The Center for the Book and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of American and the Fellowship of American Biliophilic Societies  have jointly assumed leadership of the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest, with major support from the Jay I. Kislak Foundation.

NEW YORK—Swann Galleries’ February 11 Autographs auction was devoted to Signed Historical Photographs from the Jerome Shochet Collection. 

We proudly announce this year's program which includes our Keynote Speaker, Otto Penzler, publisher, author, and owner of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York City.

The public is invited to a seminar on Ethiopian Christianity and the monastery of Gunda Gunde, which produced the Getty’s recently acquired manuscript.

Letters were sent by reclusive author to Michael Mitchell, dust jacket designer of the acclaimed novel The Catcher In The Rye

The Penn Libraries have received $4.25 million for the renovation of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) and the creation of a Special Collections Center. The donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, is a member of the Libraries’ Board of Overseers. This is the largest gift to the Libraries from a living donor.