May 2011 | Jonathan Shipley

Building a House with Books

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Videos

Book People

Joan Didion and John Dunne, 1970s

Joan Didion Archive Heads to New York Public Library

Bibliography Week Lecture on Clandestine Printing

Bright Young Librarians: Jolie Braun

Photographs

John Lennon and George Harrison, Paris. 1964

Unseen Beatles Photos by Paul McCartney Lead National Portrait Gallery Reopening

Getty Research Institute Acquires Major Collection of Indian and South Asian Photographs

In Light of Rome Photography Exhibition Opens

Maps

18th century map of California

18th Century California Map the First to Depict San Francisco Bay

Medieval & Early Modern Maps on View at Yale

Cartographer Olaus Magnus' Map of Sea Monsters

Book Arts

The three-volume set of The Divine Comedy won in the Limited Editions category

Wins for Folio Society at British Book Design Awards

RE-covery II: 43 Artists Re-imagine 43 Books: Review

Call For Submissions For New Adana Exhibition

Rare Books

55th California International Antiquarian Book Fair

What's On Around California Antiquarian Book Fair Week

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Gardening and Botany

Sold: Rare Isaac Newton Book Recently Rediscovered in Colorado

Americana

Lincoln-Douglas archive

Letters signed by Washington, Hancock and Thomas Paine to Auction

John Dillinger Signed Guilty Plea Sells for $34,370

For Sale: Woody Guthrie’s “Folk Songs”

Exhibitions

Initial M: The Apostles, Italian, about 1392– 1402

A Passion for Collecting Manuscripts

New Season of Photography at Bodleian Libraries

Historic Cathedral Bookbindings Go On Display

Visual Art

After Jean-Michel Basquiat Ascent; Olympic; Leeches; and Liberty, 1982-1983/2017

Warhol, Banksy, and Basquiat Among Contemporary Prints to Auction

Tropic Bound First Biennial Artists’ Book Fair Coming to Miami

Birthday Auction in Support of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

Auctions

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Now Newly Imprinted, is estimated at $100,000-125,000

Rare Chaucer, Shakespeare Folio, and Asssociated Copies at Potter & Potter

Witchcraft and Civil War Books Top David Stather Library Sale

First Edition of the Translated Bhagavad Gita to Auction

Sponsored

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Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale