November 5, 2009 | Jonathan Shipley

Walt Whitman: Poet, Essayist, Journalist, Blue Jean Salesman

Have you seen the newest Levi's commercials yet? They've used Walt Whitman's poem "Pioneers! O Pioneers!." You can see the ads here and here.

Poetry

Maps

William Morris's 'The Story of the Glittering Plain' and Secunda Etas Mundi Map to Auction

New Exhibition Focuses on Secret Maps

The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin Explored in New Exhibition and Book

Americana

Gene Cernan's Apollo 17 Lunar Surface Data Card

Gene Cernan’s Apollo 17 Lunar Module Data Card Book Sold for $73,219

Unpublished Raymond Chandler Manuscript 'Nightmare' Published by Strand Magazine

Western Americana to Auction at PBA Galleries

Photographs

The newly acquired unrecorded photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unrecorded Photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Rare Photo of the Week

First Retrospective of Photographer Paddy Summerfield at the Bodleian

Never Seen Before Photographs of Iran’s Constitutional Revolution to Auction

Exhibitions

Letter from Mary Shelley to Sir Walter Scott on the authorship of Frankenstein dated June 14, 1818

Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' Letter to Sir Walter Scott on Display For One Day Only

Illuminated Manuscripts Tell Story of Imperial Spanish Fashion

Rare Books and Photographs Tell Story of Middle Eastern and North African Immigration to New York

Auctions

John F. Kennedy signed photograph, quoting from his Address nominating Adlai Stevenson at the 1956 DNC: "In the great traditions of Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson, Roosevelt and the man from Independence, I give you the man from Libertyville"

Martin Luther, Chopin, Lincoln, and JFK Autograph Items to Auction

John Lennon Typescript, Greek Independence, and Robert de Montequiou: The Week in Rare Books

Diaries Written by Francis Crick Sold For £13,200

Rare Books

The Chelsea Bindery catalogue from Peter Harrington

The Chelsea Bindery Celebrates 25 Years With a Special Anniversary Catalogue

£1m Auction Estimate for 10th Century Gospel Written by German Canonesses

Is This the World’s Most Valuable Comic Book?

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

The six shortlisted novels for the Booker Prize in their special bindings

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Printing Press That Aided Chilean Independence Goes on Show

Antique Bookcases: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Book People

Salão do Livro Antigo Antiquarian Book Fair poster

Salão do Livro Antigo Antiquarian Book Fair Returns in Portugal

Bright Young Collectors: Kirin Gupta

'Remarkable Renaissance Books': Book of the Week

Visual Art

Examples of artists' books in the MAK exhibition

Turning Pages: Artists’ Books of the Present

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration to open in May 2026

Fairies, Mermaids, and Wizards at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

Walt Whitman: Poet, Essayist, Journalist, Blue Jean Salesman

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Maps

Americana

Photographs

Exhibitions

Auctions

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Book People

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