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Beloit, Wisconsin – Beloit Auction & Realty, one of the country’s most respected full-service auction companies has announced The Columbus Museum & Chicago 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition (World’s Fair) Online Auction. Honoring the legacy of Christopher Columbus, the online auction will…
Last weekend, I gave a Zoom presentation to the Florida Bibliophile Society about my new research project: librarian, author, and book collector Carolyn Wells (c. 1862-1942). Her mystery novels — she wrote 80 of them, plus another 90 books, give or take — are most intriguing to me, but I also…
The 2021 California Young Book Collectors Prize has been awarded to Jessica Camille Jordan of Palo Alto, California, for her collection "Women in Subscription Bookselling." Now in its third year, the prize is sponsored by the Southern and Northern California Chapters of the Antiquarian Booksellers…
Washington, D.C. — The Library of Congress has acquired more than 200 sketches of the Rodney King police brutality trials against four Los Angeles police officers in the 1990s, drawn by courtroom sketch artist Mary Chaney (1927-2005).
Rodney Glen King (1965-2012) was an unarmed African-American…
Henley-on-Thames, England — Jonkers Rare Books is delighted to announce a new catalogue of rare books devoted to Nineteenth Century Literature. The selection, almost the entirety of which is new to stock and acquired during the the last twelve months of lockdowns and disruptions, includes fine…
Yesterday we heard the news that Lawrence Ferlinghetti died on February 22 at the spectacular age of 101. The legendary poet, painter, publisher, and founder of City Lights Booksellers in San Francisco had a long life and a life well lived.
Brooklyn, NY — We are delighted to announce the fifth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, a cash award of $1000 for an outstanding book collection built by a woman aged 30 or younger, anywhere in the United States.
New York –– The 83rd Rare Posters Auction from Poster Auctions International slated for Sunday, March 14th features masterpieces and rarities from a century of poster design. Top artists include Cappiello, Cassandre, Mucha, and Toulouse-Lautrec.
All 500 lots will be on view to the public February…
The UK’s leading gardening organization, The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), has been moving its unique library to a new purpose-built home, RHS Hilltop at its Wisley property in Woking, Surrey. It holds an extensive collection of rare books, journals, and other publications relating to…
Here are the auctions I'll be watching this week:
