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.
A selling exhibition of David Bailey's iconic images of the 1960s - the
50th anniversary of a decade that changed our cultural history - will
be hosted by Bonhams in New Bond Street.
The private papers of leading Marxist art historian, Francis Klingender, are to be sold at Bonhams Printed Books and Maps sale in Oxford on 23 February.
The Charlestown NH Historical Society recently used a creative approach to secure funding for the conservation treatment of an 1860 map of Sullivan County, New Hampshire. Printed on paper, coated with varnish, and attached to a decaying cloth backing, the large map was made to hang on a wall from wooden supports. The map was beginning to crumble and was in dire need of conservation treatment to preserve it for future generations.
On Tuesday, 30 March, 2010 Sotheby’s will offer a range of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints. The spring sale in London will present an exciting opportunity to acquire works by a group of important Old Master artists such as Rembrandt, Dürer and Goya. .
On Tuesday, March 9, 2010, for one evening only, the Grolier Club of New York is pleased to host the American premiere of “My Wife Did a Bit of Scribbling.” The occasion is the current exhibition Mary Webb: Neglected Genius at the Grolier Club (47 East 60th Street, New York, New York 10022) from January 28 through March 13, 2010.
OLD GREENWICH, CT - March 19/20/21, 2010: The Ephemera Society of
America and Flamingo Eventz, LLC are pleased to announce that Ephemera
30 - the 30th annual Ephemera Society of America International Paper
Fair and Conference - will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Old
Greenwich, CT on March 19/20/21, 2010. “The response to this event
grows more and more enthusiastic” according to the Society’s president,
Gigi Barnhill. “The Society has been growing in members and the fair
has been growing in size and features for the past several years,” she
said. Tina Bruno of Flamingo Eventz said, “We have a full roster of
Exhibitors, including a number of new participants from Europe. The
Hyatt has always been a popular venue and, since the move back, we have
no trouble filling the ample ballroom and adjacent gallery and are now
collecting a waiting list”. This is a world-class fair designed to
provide Ephemera enthusiasts an exceptional collecting and educational
opportunity.
An evocative exhibition on the waterways heritage of America will come to the Grolier Club in the spring of 2010. “Lives on the Mississippi: Literature and Culture along the Great River,” from the collections of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, on view from February 24-May 1, 2010, will explore the history, development and life of the Mississippi River as a distinct yet vast cultural region. Its traditions, lore, and heritage reverberate in literature and art over nearly 2500 miles and more than 400 years a fertile and fluid meandering of consciousness, vision, and imagination.
February 1, 2010, Durham, NC. Fine Books & Collections magazine,
which targets collectors of rare and collectible books, will return to
a regular print schedule in April 2010.
