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Highlights from the exhibitors at the 2026 New York International Antiquarian Book Fair which runs…
Rare books from the personal library of pioneering British scholar of Armenian and Iranian studies…
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The National Gallery of Art has acquired the Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection, one of the most important holdings of American vernacular photographs. Formed over 50 years, it includes 248 photographs of and by African Americans made from the 1840s through the early 20th century.
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Evan Miller, proprietor of Dividing Line Books in New York City:How did you get started in rare books?
Established in 2005 by Fine Books & Collections magazine to recognize outstanding book collecting efforts by college and university students, the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest is now jointly administered by the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), the…
Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and Fashion, which opens today, is the first major exhibition to explore the fashion of the Bloomsbury group, and how the 20th century cultural collective still impacts global style more than 100 years later.
Freeman’s September 27 sale includes a distinguished selection of 18th- and 19th-century travel and color plate books, led by a rare first edition of Frederick Catherwood’s 1844 Views of the Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan, as well as volumes on the Mediterranean and…
As part of Phaidon's 100th anniversary celebrations this year the publishing house has opened up its archives for a special exhibition at Christie’s, Rockefeller Center, New York which runs through September 18 before travelling to London in October.
A major new exhibition, Fantasy: Realms of Imagination, at the British Library will explore the evolution of fantasy. From ancient folk tales and fairy stories, gothic horror and weird fiction, to live action role-playing games inspired by fantasy worlds, the exhibition will celebrate the genre and…
A life-sized bronze statue of Dame Agatha Christie has been unveiled in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, where she lived for more than four decades.
ALDE sells 386 lots of Livres Anciens on Wednesday, September 13, including a 1542 French edition of Boccaccio's Filocolo, which is expected to sell for €4,000–5,000.
'Small performances' will allow researchers at Cambridge University Library to step back in time to look at the creation of one of the world’s most popular and enduring typefaces, Baskerville.A second project at the library looking at the secrets contained within sacred texts of some of the world’s…
