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Chawton House has acquired a first edition of Jane Austen's Sanditon, three handwritten letters by…
The third part of JG Autographs's online Collecting Camelot: The Kennedy Legacy auction features…
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Rare Book School's 2023 summer’s lecture series gets underway on June 5 at the Dome Room, UVA Rotunda with S. Max Edelson, Professor of History, University of Virginia, talking on The Surveyor’s Eye: Topographic Mapping and the Contest for Empire in Eighteenth-Century British America in the NEH-…
English cartoonist Norman Thelwell is perhaps best known now for his humorous drawings of chubby ponies and pony club girls but he was also keenly interested in the environment as the Cartoon Museum in London reveals in its new exhibition marking the 100th year of his birth.
The Bodleian Libraries' new Gifts and Books exhibition will explore the importance of giving and receiving books, asking what this apparently simple act reveals about human relationships and beliefs.
Opening at the Weston Library on 16 June 2023, the exhibition will display items from the Bodleian…
If you missed the publication in hardback of Book Parts, a series of 22 short essays by major figures in the book world, back in 2019 then its appearance now in paperback is the perfect moment to remedy this loss.
A trio of interesting conferences to add to your diaries are coming up in the near future including Aphra Behn & her Restoration, The Brontë Society's How beautiful the earth is still, and Quills and Characters: approaches to women’s letters, 1660-1860
UNESCO has recognized an international set of 15 manuscripts about Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the globe and the three Hikayat Aceh manuscripts from Leiden University Libraries as World Heritage.
Results from the Vogt Auction Galleries sale of bookseller and writer Larry McMurtry's personal estate from his home in Archer City, Texas, this week included:
* A cast-signed set of the four books in the Lonesome Dove saga including Robert Duvall, Anjelica Huston, Chris Cooper, and Margo…
Two complete sets of Beatles autographs and never-before-seen snapshots of Paul McCartney and George Harrison from a 1963 gig are coming to auction in Staffordshire. The autograph books have the rare distinction of bearing all four signatures of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and…
"I was terribly saddened to learn of the death of John Dunning," writes Nick Basbanes, "a consummate bookman in every respect.
The founding, organization, and expansion of a major American university library over more than three centuries is the focus of I Give These Books: The History of Yale University Library 1656 - 2022 by David Alan Richards, published by Oak Knoll Press.
