The Horsham Museum & Art Gallery in southeast England announced last week a major new acquisition: a 270-year-old pamphlet revealing “fascinating tales of failed gay seduction, smuggling, robbery, and a 19-year-old lad courting a rich 70-year-old widow

A quieter week coming up in the salerooms, but there are still a couple of auctions to watch:

As many of you know from her cameo in The Booksellers (2019), author Fran Lebowitz is very much a bibliophile.

Forget your simple Hallmark card because a spectacular trove of vintage valentines and trade cards heads to auction in California just in time for Valentine’s Day.

After nearly a year spent isolated from friends, family, and coworkers, many of us have found ourselves tethered, for better or worse, to virtual conference platforms to remain in touch and to get work done.

Last week, the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds in the UK announced its acquisition of a very special book.

Here are the auctions I'll be watching this week:

Just a year ago, a fire nearly destroyed the collection of the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA).

Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Miriam Borden, winner of the 2020 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for women book colle

In October 2014, while waiting for the light rail, I ducked into a bookstore to get out of the rain. I love treasure hunting in old bookstores. It was hard to move down the aisles because they were filled with cardboard boxes, which was a good sign.