A complete three-volume set of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in first editions,…
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Austin, TX – The Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the Jacques Lowe Photographic Archive. Lowe is best known for his photographs documenting the Kennedy family, notably John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign and his first year in the White House…
For book collectors, it’s always hunting season. No one knows this better than Kurt Zimmerman, longtime book collector and cofounder of the Book Hunters Club of Houston. Zimmerman has just published his first book, Rare Book Hunting: Essays and Escapades, a collection of highly enjoyable stories…
Connecticut — Antiquarian Auctions in the U.S. offers Sale # 5: Natural History. The majority of the sale (over 120 lots) consists of several 1000 Off-Prints, Extracts and Pamphlets from the Malacological Library of Richard I. Johnson. The auction runs from Thursday 18th March until Thursday 25th,…
Today’s Video Friday is more of a recommendation for weekend viewing. Netflix’s new three-part true crime documentary, Murder Among the Mormons, chronicles the Mark Hofmann story. No spoilers if you don’t know what happened in 1985, just watch; there’s greed, forgery, murder—and historical…
New York – The Manhattan Rare Book Company is celebrating Women’s History Month by offering for sale a historically significant first edition copy of a mathematical text from the personal library of Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), the renowned British scientist and mathematician (and daughter of the…
Leyburn, North Yorkshire, UK — A first edition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has sold in Tennants Auctioneers’ Books, Maps & Ephemeral Sale for £4,200 (plus buyer’s premium). The volume was published by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and is an example of the second state of the first issue…
From works of art and missals to wallpaper, German printers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were colorfully creative marvels. Their work is explored in detail for the first time in Early Colour Printing: German Renaissance Woodcuts at the British Museum by Dr. Elizabeth Savage, senior…
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Jamie Mastrogiacomo, who was an honorable mention in the 2020 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for women collectors 30 and under.
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New York — People who bought Suzie Frankfurt’s 1959 cookbook, Wild Raspberries looking for culinary inspiration were in for a surprise. In place of the lavish haute cuisine recipes common at the time, they found absurd concoctions such as that for Omlet Greta Garbo – Always to be eaten alone in a…
