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Bonhams' upcoming sale of items from the Brentwood residence of William 'Billy' Haines includes a…
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Austen, Whitman, Woolf all self-published? That’s right. In Do It Yourself! Self-Publishing from Letterpress to LaserJet, a new exhibition at Harvard’s Houghton Library, “self-publishing” is deconstructed, offering a more encompassing view of the practice.
Christie’s is inviting foodies and collectors to explore four centuries of gastronomy and its history through a selection of books from the library of Baron Pierre de Crombrugghe.
A new exhibition focuses on the long history of pop-up books with moving parts, dials, three-dimensional spreads, and interactive flaps.
Pop-Up Books through the Ages at the Newberry - Trienens Galleries in Chicago examines how these special volumes have been popular with readers of all ages and…
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week - it's a busy one!
It has been 20 years since BIBLIO was founded in Asheville, NC. Its mission was to give antiquarian and used bookstores the tools needed to survive and grow in a digital world. Since then, BIBLIO has grown to become a major independent marketplace, offering booksellers a global reach to market and…
Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books is returning to TEFAF Maastricht in 2023 (9-19 March) with a display of museum-quality manuscripts, miniatures, and early printed books from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This year’s highlights are a Franciscan devotional book shining with gold, a narrative…
A Stephen Hawking autograph has sold for $18,813, according to Boston-based RR Auction.
Accompanied by a transmittal letter signed by his wife, Jane Hawking, dated October 15, 1983, it reads in part: "Thank you for your courteous letter of 29 September requesting my husband's autograph. After many…
Highlights from Lawbook Exchange’s latest catalogue of broadsides and ephemera.
The New-York Historical Society, the city’s first museum, presents Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated). Walker’s series of 15 prints responds to the two-volume anthology Harper’s Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion first published in 1866.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell’s famous invention, the telephone. While scientific history is mired in controversy over who actually devised the first electronic speech-transmitting device, it was Bell who received the US patent for the telephone, on March 7, 1876.…
