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Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Richard Erdmann, proprietor of Mare…
The Jane Austen Museum in Chawton, England, is looking for help in transcribing the unpublished…
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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the Newberry a grant of $336,288 to digitize more than 2,000 rare books and manuscripts documenting languages spoken or formerly spoken by the Indigenous peoples of North and Central America.
'The Art of the Book' is the theme for the 2024 edition of Firsts: London's Rare Book Fair which returns May 16 - 19 over three floors of the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea.
Highlights from Swann Galleries' May 9 Tennis & Sports Posters: Collection of the Schwartz Family & Tennis Corporation of America auction include: * * Aldo Cosomati, For The Wimbledon Tournament June 25th, 1923. Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000.* Leopoldo Metlicovitz, E. & A. – Mele –…
At Heritage Auctions on Tuesday, April 23, 505 lots of Illustration Art, including James Ford Clymer's original art for the Saturday Evening Post cover of the October 31, 1953 issue ($150,000–250,000); Amos Sewell's "Visiting Hours," for the cover of the April 29, 1961 issue of the same magazine is…
The Crosby-Schoyen Codex leads Christie's' Manuscript Masterpieces from The Schøyen Collection in June with an estimated sale value of $2.6m - $3.8m.
The Drew University Archives and Special Collections has unveiled a new collection of previously unpublished works about Frankenstein author Mary Shelley.
A rare paperback edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone comes for sale at Sworders this month.
Organizers of the David Ruggles Prize, an annual international book collecting prize to encourage and support young collectors of color, are seeking entries for the 2024 competition.
Highlights from items from original narrative art specialists Illustrated Gallery at The Philadelphia Show, April 25 – 28 include:* Rose O'Neill-Cecil Latham, illustration for the poem Baby's First Christmas by Margaret G. Hayes, published in Harper's Bazar, December 1910. Pencil, charcoal and…
A significant historical document signed by President Grover Cleveland approving Utah's entry as the 45th state into the Union has been sold for $27,188 by RR Auction. Dated January 4, 1896, the one-page document features President Cleveland's directive to the Secretary of State to affix the…
