The J. Paul Getty Museum will open its Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages…
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Connecticut — The online preview to AntiquarianAuctions.com latest US sale will run from the 27th July until the 3rd August. At 12.30pm EDT on the 3rd the sale will open for bidding: bidding will close for all lots at 12.30pm EDT on Wednesday 10th August.
James Fleming, nephew of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and editor of The Book Collector, published an illuminating book last year that explores a shadowy corner of the 007 universe: how the USSR and other Communist states pushed back on the famous fictional spy. In Bond Behind The Iron Curtain,…
Those stamp-sized bookseller labels often found on the rear paste down end paper of old and rare books are often as artistically interesting as the books' dust jackets; high karat precious gems of graphic design in small settings.
Printing came late to my adopted state.
Leyburn, North Yorkshire — This September, Tennants Auctioneers are delighted to be selling The Glaisdale Agricultural Library: The Private Collection of a Yorkshire Agriculturalist in a single-owner sale.
If you’re interested in learning more about the rare book business, applications are still open for the annual York Antiquarian Book Seminar (YABS), which will run October 31 to November 3, 2022.
New York – The Hispanic Society Museum & Library (HSM&L) – the primary institution dedicated to the preservation, study, understanding, exhibition and enjoyment of art and cultures of Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries and communities – announces significant acquisitions made at the…
Talk therapy is nothing new, but how about bibliotherapy? I'm not talking about self-help publications, but rather using literature as a means to physical and psychological salvation. And really, who else but the French, the beneficiaries of a literary patrimony that dates from the 9th century,…
Last fall, the mighty literary organization PEN, which originated in London as a dining club for writers, celebrated its 100th anniversary.
One room was abandoned when the piles neared the ceiling, and at some point a subsidence of books blocked the door from the inside, sealing the room off.
