Yesterday we heard the news that Lawrence Ferlinghetti died on February 22 at the spectacular age…
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February 23, 2021
The UK’s leading gardening organization, The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), has been moving its unique library to a new purpose-built home, RHS…
February 22, 2021
Here are the auctions I'll be watching this week:
Bonhams London holds their Gentleman's Library Sale on Tuesday and Wednesday, February 23–24. The…
February 18, 2021
We first spoke to Nigel Beale, host of book culture podcast The Biblio File, almost ten years ago when he launched the Literary Tourist community and…
February 17, 2021
Although it’s impossible for us to take trips at the moment, the Palace Green Library in Durham, England, has put together a treat for armchair…
February 16, 2021
Travelers to Dublin are bound to see signs for Guinness beer just about everywhere they turn. But these posters and placards, at least the older ones…
February 15, 2021
Dominic Winter Auctioneers sells Printed Books & Documents, Maps, Decorative Prints & Watercolours, Military & Aviation History on…
February 12, 2021
On January 30, the New York Academy of Medicine hosted this year's Bibliography Week Lecture on manuscript cookbooks with speaker Stephen Schmidt,…
