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Porto's first Antiquarian Book Fair (1º Salão do Livro Antigo no Porto) will take place May 1-3 in…
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Christie’s will present an autograph letter from the 26-year old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his close friend Baroness von Waldstätten (estimate: £300,000–500,000) declaring that he will need to get married within two days in order to save his future wife from the scandal of…
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter corrected page proofs led Christie’s' Fine Books and Manuscripts June sales, going for $693,000 to philanthropist and bibliophile Stuart Rose.
Our Bright Young Booksellers series takes us to Hawaii today for an interview with Sarah Gibbon, proprietor of Kona Bay Books on the Big Island, Hawaii.How did you get started in rare books?
Heritage will present the first broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence printed in Massachusetts at auction on July 8. There are only six recorded copies of this historic broadside, and the one going under the hammer is one of just two in private hands - the only other copy in private…
It's Bloomsday today and there are celebrations going on around the world to mark the day on which James Joyce set Ulysses in 1904.
"I love researching the provenance of my books", wrote bibliophile and blogger Jerry Morris in his 2014 blog post 'Some Auspicious Biblio-Sleuthing", a mission statement that shines from every page of a new collection of his writings, The 7 Book Blogs of Jerry Morris.
Nearly 1,500 items will go under the hammer at Heritage's June 22-25 Comics & Comic Art auction including work by Frank Frazetta, Golden Age Batmans, pages documenting the birth of Bane, original Calvin and Hobbes strips, and the first meeting of MAD's 'Spy vs. Spy'.
The Fall 2023-Spring 2024 Grolier Club exhibition schedule offers an intriguing range of displays from bookbindings and translation to detective fiction and its opening Fall exhibition, Presidents and Their Books: What They Read and What They Wrote (September 7 – November 11).
A group of scientists, researchers, and scholars have studied three of what are believed to be among the earliest surviving photographic artifacts in the Americas, created by 19th century artist and inventor Hercule Florence. Their work sheds new light on the race to create the first lasting…
New polling by the Publishers Association has found that people are turning to books and reading as a form as escapism this summer. A third of respondents say that books offer them the best form of escapism when they are having a bad day. This is ahead of streaming television (32%), looking at…
