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The J. Paul Getty Museum will open its Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages…
The ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography sponsored by the International League of Antiquarian…
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Book artist and publisher Richard Minsky, long a friend and contributor to FB&C, has just announced his latest project: Catalin Valentin’s Lamb by photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon, printed in an edition of fifteen. The book tells the story behind Fox Solomon’s iconic photo of a woman nursing a…
A new online project to make historic correspondence related to the founding of the Oxford English Dictionary freely available is now underway.
The University of Michigan (U-M) Library announced last week that its 1610 Galileo manuscript—“for almost a century considered one of the jewels of the library’s collection”—is indeed a twentieth-century forgery.
Columbus, OH – This fall, the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) will premiere Wild Things are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak. It will be the first major retrospective of Sendak since his death in 2012, and the largest and most complete exhibition of one of the most celebrated and…
A trio of sales I'll be watching this week features antiquarian books, photography, and a Sunkist archive.
In our summer issue, we took a closer look at the recently published book, Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books (Yale University Press). During the writing and editing process, we tuned into an enlightening presentation by its author, Geoffrey Roberts, professor emeritus of history at…
Three decades ago, while out antiquing, Kendra and Allan Daniel came across a painting called The Fish Boy signed “Nura” that caught their eye. “The artist’s name was unfamiliar,” recalled Kendra, “but the painting struck me as highly inspired.”
London — A previously unknown sketchbook of watercolours and pencil drawings relating to the California Gold Rush and the famous Forty Niners has sold at auction on August 4 for £20,000 ($24,100; including buyers premium).
Berkeley, CA — On August 25, 2022, PBA Galleries will be hosting a sale of Antiquarian Books with Fine Press and Fine Bindings of over 350 lots from the private press movement, fine bindings, fore-edge painted books, posters, graphic arts and antiquarian books. Featured are choice selections of…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Jennifer Fisher, poet and proprietor of Vortexity, a street shop in the East Village on Avenue A near to St. Mark's in New York City.
