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A new permanent exhibition charting more than 200 years of Jane Austen publishing history has…
The New York Historical has announced the launch of The Story of America in 7 Books, part…
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The Yiddish Book Center presents a major new core exhibition that explores a multi-faceted international story of identity, creativity, migration, and belonging. Yiddish: A Global Culture opens on October 15, 2023, expanding the Center’s scope to include the world’s first…
Napoleon was one of the best read leaders the world has ever seen. As a young man he particularly enjoyed Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans and in exile on Saint Helena one of his favourites was Paul et Virginie by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.
The Bonhams online sale of Books and Manuscripts, featuring the collection of Delmer and Mary Lou Daves, ends on Tuesday, August 22. The 214 lots include a rare broadside prospectus for Scientific American from 1846, along with some associated material (estimated at $2,000–3,000); an 1880 Johannes…
The Houses of Tove Jansson exhibition includes works that have not been publicly on display before including a number of her Moomin sketches.
Strange Types & Odd Sorts, subtitled A Peek into the World of Print in Ireland, has just been published by the National Print Museum and creative writing mentoring experts Fighting Words.
Hard Case Crime will be published a lost novel by Rex Stout, "Seed on the Wind," in November. Hard Case Crime founder and editor, Charles Ardai, recently spoke with us over email about the upcoming publication:In November, Hard Case Crime will be publishing Rex Stout's Seed on the Wind, a lost…
Highlights from Maggs Bros' Poetry 1506-1621 short list catalogue include:* Rare pocket edition of Ovid (Lyon, Godefroy & Marcellin Beringen, 1547)
The Grolier Club in New York City presents an exhibition this fall about the power of books and ideas at a time of censorship and repression.
The celebrations marking the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio are still ongoing, including the open access website First Folios Compared.
Doyle's 219-lot sale of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps ends on Tuesday, August 15. Lots include a deluxe copy of Charles Phair's 1937 Atlantic Salmon Fishing estimated at $10,000–15,000. Sharing an estimate of $2,000–3,000 are the first English edition of Edwin James' Account of an Expedition…
