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A complete three-volume set of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in first editions,…
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Los Angeles — On October 28, Bonhams sale of Music Memorabilia will offer two extraordinary rarities from The Beatles’ earliest years, handwritten set lists from live performances held in 1960 and 1963. Both set lists were written by Sir Paul McCartney when he was only 17 and 20 years old. These…
We received a tip this week from antiquarian bookseller Peter Masi about a bookshop in upstate New York that is on the market. If you’ve ever aspired to run a bookshop in the countryside, now’s the chance. With a stock of 35,000 fine, rare, and used books, prints and ephemera, Own Pen Books could…
Los Angeles – August 13, 1521, marks the fall of the Aztec Empire (also known as the Triple Alliance). Following more than a year of war, a smallpox outbreak, and a protracted siege, the Mexicas (also referred to as the Aztecs) surrendered to the Spanish conquistadors and their Indigenous allies,…
New York — Swann Galleries’ third annual auction dedicated to the art, material culture, and history of the LGBTQ+ community will be held on Thursday, August 19, bringing to market both familiar artists as well as fresh, unusual and infrequently seen material.
A new campaign to erect a statue of arguably England’s first professional female writer in her hometown is now underway.
Born in Canterbury, Kent, Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was a prolific playwright, novelist, and poet (not to mention spy for Charles II) who was celebrated in her day and is buried in…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Holly Segar, proprietor of A Fox's Tale / Caroliniana Rare Books (ABAA) in Aiken, South Carolina:
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A trio of sales on Thursday, August 5 to watch this week:
New York — Poster Auctions International’s (PAI) second sale of the year, on July 20th, finished at $1.9 million in sales. Rare Posters Auction LXXXIV demonstrated a continued passion for the masters of the poster—namely, Alphonse Mucha.
As readers of FB&C know, the Morgan Library is currently hosting a gorgeous exhibition of fine bindings, Bound for Versailles: The Jayne Wrightsman Bookbindings Collection, through September 26. Curator John T. McQuillen wrote this essay about his experience with the collection for our summer…
Some may hear the phrase ‘farm to table’ and think only of a sweet gastropub in the countryside, but for one group of scholars it calls to mind a recently completed, four-year project to explore seventeenth- and eighteenth-century culinary culture. Before ‘Farm to Table’: Early Modern Foodways…
