December 2009 | Jonathan Shipley

Five Things You Don't Know about Louisa May Alcott

Before you watch the PBS special, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind "Little Women," this video will tempt your palate for more about the famed author:

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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

Book Arts

John Milton biscuits design developed in collaboration with Milton’s Cottage.

Celebrate National Biscuit Day with Remarkable John Milton Biscuits

Kickstarter Tribute to Library of Congress Rare Books Expert Mark Dimunation

Countdown begins to Festival of Libraries

Rare Books

Manuscripts about Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the globe

UNESCO Status for First Voyage Around the Globe, Hikayat Aceh, and Augustine Gospels

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Spanish & Portuguese Golden Age Literature

Charles Dickens Signed Presentation First Impression of 'American Notes' to Auction

Americana

Manuscript lyrics for On the Radio

Donna Summer's Handwritten Lyrics to Auction

Manuscript Fragment from The Scarlet Letter Leads Nathaniel Hawthorne Auction

Bibliophile's Lifetime African-American Collection Heads to Brown University

Exhibitions

Frontispiece illustration to the first edition of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol

New Exhibition Looks at Giving Books as Gifts

Leonardo da Vinci's 'Codex Atlanticus' to be Displayed in the U.S.

Play and Pastimes in Medieval Manuscripts at Getty

Visual Art

Norman Thelwell Saves the Planet poster

Cartoonist Norman Thelwell Saves the Planet

Gould, Audubon, and Lear in New Exhibit Celebrating Writing About Birds

Books and Reading Centrestage at Chelsea Flower Show 2023

Photographs

Descent of the Rabbit

Photographic Evidence of Lartigue’s Daredevil Pet to Auction

ICP Photobook Fest Weekend Preview

Ansel Adams, Paul Greenberg, and Beatles in America Photographs to Auction

Book People

The cover of Book Parts

'Book Parts' Now Out in Paperback

Forthcoming Brontë Society, Aphra Behn, and Women's Letters Conferences

John Dunning, bookseller and novelist, 1942-2023

Auctions

McMurtry's Arts and Crafts partners desk

Larry McMurtry Estate Auction Results

Two Complete Sets of Beatles Autographs to Auction

Washington, Beethoven, and Houdini Material to Auction

Maps

John Speed's atlas

John Speed 17th Century Atlas Makes Auction Debut

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

Medieval & Early Modern Maps on View at Yale