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The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will mark the longevity of a classic picture book hero…
A series of free public exhibitions focusing on creative and intellectual expression in the…
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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…
Leyburn, North Yorkshire, England — A first edition, first impression of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone sold for £80,000 (plus buyer’s premium), one of a number of outstanding results seen in Tennants Auctioneers’ Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on 28th July.
