A life-size bronze of writer Sylvia Townsend Warner has been unveiled in Dorchester her home county…
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Decorations and holiday trees inspired by poems, traditional tales, and children’s books are on…
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New York’s Rare Book Week is revving back up after last year’s Covid break. This two-part series will preview book fairs (part I) and auctions and exhibitions (part II) taking place in NYC between April 19-26.
London – Bonhams, the global auction house, has acquired the renowned US auction house, Skinner. The company will be known as Bonhams Skinner. Financial terms are not being disclosed.
Last week may have been quiet, but this week is anything but! Here are the sales I'll be watching:
Berkeley, CA – PBA Galleries announces an auction of Fine Literature – Beats, the Counterculture and Bukowski on March 24th, 2022. The sale comprises over 400 lots of fine literature and ephemera, featuring scarce works from the counterculture and the Beat Generation, as well as a large selection…
In our spring article about Manhattan’s new Press Room bar and letterpress museum, Tim League referenced Adam Roffman’s short film, The Collection, which premiered at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival, as the inspiration for his acquisition of a collection of letterpress blocks and prints used to make…
Lowell, MA — We’re thrilled to announce the David Ruggles Prize, a new national book collecting prize to encourage and support young collectors of color. The three prizes—$1,000 grand prize, $500 second prize, and $250 third prize—will be awarded annually to applicants whose collections are deemed…
“Strange, that the mere identity of paper and ink should be so powerful. In truth, the original manuscript has always something which print itself must inevitably lose. An erasure, even a blot, a casual irregularity of hand, and all such little imperfections of mechanical execution, bring us close…
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Joe Hiller of North Carolina, one of the winners of the 2021 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest.
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London – The 19th century poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) didn’t just preach free love, communal living and the rights of women – he also walked the talk. Expelled from Oxford for atheism, Shelley eloped in 1810 with Harriet Westbrook, a 16-year-old schoolgirl. A baby, and unhappy marriage (…
San Francisco — The Grabhorn Institute and Arion Press are thrilled to announce a $400,000, three-year gift from Denver philanthropist and book collector Taylor Kirkpatrick. This major gift—one of the three largest donations in the Institute’s history—will sponsor an ambitious series of pilot…
