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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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Berkeley, CA – PBA Galleries' Comic Books Sale 3022 held on February 3rd had an unprecedented percentage of 99% sale rate. The auction witnessed a large number of new bidders that were particularly active and competitive throughout the whole sale. Top prices were fetched for several "unslabbed"…
A new exhibition at the National Library of Wales celebrates its collection of the country’s fine bookbinding tradition.
Surrey, England — To be sold at auction on Thursday 10th March, this exceptional work, which is dated 1963, was produced for a family with whom Betjeman was staying in Anglesey and is the first known draft of A Bay in Anglesey. The poem was first published in the Cornhill magazine’s winter 1964-65…
For the seventh year in a row, the New York Academy of Medicine Library is hosting its annual coloring festival on social media. Libraries, museums, and archives around the world have uploaded the latest batch of coloring books based on rare books, prints, and maps from their collections.
Berkeley, CA – PBA Galleries' Fine Art and Photography Sale 753 held on January 27th was a very successful auction with lot of activity. It aroused a deep interest on lots of great diversity; the prints and lithographs did particularly well.
Detroit — The Detroit Festival of Books is excited to announce its fifth-annual festival on Sunday, July 17.
This year’s Bookfest will be a fifth-annual celebration of literature and culture in southeast Michigan. The Eastern Market Partnership continues to support Bookfest and is again hosting…
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London – The peripatetic life of the 19th century Irish painter George Chinnery (1774-1852) took him from the Tipperary of his birth to London, then to Serampore in West Bengal via Madras, Calcutta and Dacca. Fleeing his creditors, he arrived in Macau in 1825 and made the island his home until his…
Stuttgart, Germany — Even though an in-person fair is not yet possible due to the ongoing pandemic, the German Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, VDA, has kept with the tradition of its printed catalogue, an important component of the Stuttgart fair each year.
The much-anticipated catalogue of…
This week the book world celebrated the centenary of James Joyce’s controversial novel, Ulysses. In conjunction with Rare Books LA, which opens today, a virtual panel discussion reflecting on “The Novel of the Century” was held; in case you missed it, it has been uploaded to YouTube and is…
