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This week's Rare Book of the Week is the first privately printed edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter which comes up for auction at Dominic Winter on October 2 with an estimate of £40,000-£60,000.
More than 150 volumes from landscape architect Renny Reynolds’ personal library on garden design and architecture went under the hammer at Freeman’s | Hindman Garden Party: The Collection of Renny Reynolds auction.Reynolds’s client list included Giorgio Armani, Diana Ross, and Andy Warhol, while he…
Alexandra E. LaGrand has won the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for her archive documenting Shakespearean breeches actresses over the long 19th century.The annual prize, which rewards American women book collectors aged 30 years and younger, was established in 2017 by Honey & Wax…
The Empire State Rare Book and Print Fair at Vanderbilt Hall, Grand Central Terminal, New York, runs September 27-28 with a preview night September 26. Highlights offered by Peter Harrington at the fair include: Il dissoluto punito osia il Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Friedrich…
After nearly five decades in New Haven the William Reese Company officially opens at its new home in New York City today.The firm’s new home is an 8th floor gallery and office space at 14 East 60th Street in the former Hotel Fourteen, immediately adjacent to what used to be the Copacabana Club. The…
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Howard Kordansky, winner of the 2024 ABA National Book Collecting Prize and the Anthony Davis Student Book Collecting PrizeWhere are you from / where do you live?I grew up in Worcestershire, England but I now live in central London.What do you…
An original example of the bookcases at Lambeth Palace Library is now available to buy after nearly 200 years service.Measuring nearly 3m high and 12m long, the pine 12-bay wall-mounted bookcase with adjustable shelves was designed by Edward Blore around 1830, and then later reformatted c.1945. It…
Rare Book School at the University of Virginia has now made available recordings of talks from its Summer 2025 Lecture Series. A Parallel History of Books and Blooks with Mindell Dubansky, Conservator, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of ArtWatch on YouTubeListen on SoundCloud
The Strand Magazine today releases in its issue 76 the previously unpublished Raymond Chandler manuscript Nightmare that has remained unseen for decades.
The Huntington will become the permanent home of the L.A. Louver Archive & Library which will preserve more than five decades of documentation related to Southern California contemporary art and cultural history. “The L.A. Louver Archive & Library expands our ability to tell the story…
