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The Antiquarian Book School Foundation has announced the return of the 2026 CABS-Minnesota…
A comprehensive collection of personal Colonel Harland Sanders memorabilia including his personal…
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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…
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.
