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Potter & Potter's August, 2023 Vintage and Modern Magicana Auction will feature a fine selection of Harry Houdini-related items including inscribed and signed books, images, posters, and rare ephemera.Leading the sale are several books with ties to Harry Houdini including:
MW Book Fairs has announced the launch of Books in Boston @ Hilton Back Bay, a new antiquarian book & ephemera fair. Initial interest has been strong, with 25 dealers committed since the public announcement of the show.
Highlights of the Swann Galleries Vintage Posters auction on August 3 include:* Buffalo Bill’s Wild West & Pioneer Exhibition, 1907 (estimate $8,000 - $12,000) from the Early American entertainment section* Keep Calm And Carry On, 1939, among a featured selection of World War and propaganda…
The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association's 44th Annual Book Trade History Conference takes as its focus this year 'Scandal and Gossip in the Book Trade from the Middle Ages to the Present Day'.Running November 19-20 2023, here is how the organisers describe the event:
A new series exploring compelling library collections around the world launches today with a profile of the Transportation Library at Northwestern University in Chicago. We interviewed Rachel Cole, Curator and Head of the library.
The 2023 Library of Congress National Book Festival returns to the Washington Convention Center on August 12, taking as its theme 'Everyone Has a Story' to celebrate the storyteller in us all.
The 2023 LA Art Book Fair (LAABF) will take place August 10–13 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in downtown Los Angeles.Established in 2013, LAABF is an international celebration over four days, featuring a wide range of artists, small presses, institutions, galleries, antiquarian booksellers,…
To mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s First Folio, the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin will display all three copies in the library’s collection beginning August 19 as part of the exhibition, The Long Lives of Very Old Books.
In the age of snippet reviews, being a wordy blogger may seem disadvantageous. But not for me. I could never have written my book otherwise, writes Kate Jackson.
At Trafford Books on Wednesday, August 2, 253 lots of books, ephemera and autographs in their Auction No. 419, including some interesting group and shelf lots of books and ephemera.
