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More than 155 items related to Benjamin Franklin including printed ephemera, books, letters,…
Unique Friends scripts and photo album will go under the hammer on June 5 at Heritage Auctions to…
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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…
The London kitchen that inspired one of the twentieth century’s most famous picture books for children is now open to visitors in new surroundings in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Judith Kerr’s The Tiger Who Came To Tea – in which a hungry and thirsty (but also charmingly polite) tiger comes for an…
It's a fairly quiet week in the salerooms this week. Here is the trio of sales I'll be watching:
Los Angeles — The Getty Research Institute has received the donation of the papers of David Redden, the longest serving auctioneer at the venerable auction house Sotheby’s. The collection documents Redden’s entire career in the auction world.
Palm Springs, CA — Palm Springs is synonymous with golf, tennis, swimming, modernism, and Coachella. Now we’re adding rare books to the mix!
New York — Swann Galleries’ Thursday, March 24 sale Printed Manuscript & African Americana sale will feature important material, from slavery through the civil rights era and into the current period.
I visited the Museum of the Book and Printing of Ukraine in 2015, a year after Russia began waging its war in eastern Ukraine. I was in the country to interview political elites and collect survey data measuring the impact of violence in Kyiv and in the Donbass on the recent parliamentary elections…
A new exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Yorkshire shines an intriguing light not on Charlotte’s work but on her clothes.
London – Women have often been side lined in history, frequently having to fight for their voices to be heard. A new Bonhams sale, Women Through History, aims to highlight this struggle and celebrate the achievements of the women who changed the narrative. The sale, which will take place on…
The spring issue’s Editor’s Shelf recommends five new books about books, and I’m adding two to that list in this brief review of new books bibliophiles will particularly enjoy.
