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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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A whopper of an auction week coming up! Here are a few of the sales I'll be watching:
London — One of the fascinating aspects of collecting rare books is coming across an association copy – a work by a famous author given to an, often, equally famous contemporary. Bonhams Fine Books, Manuscripts and Photographs sale in London on Wednesday 24 June offers three fine association copies…
York, PA – Throughout 2020 and the first quarter of this year, collectors of pop culture memorabilia made it clear that even a global pandemic could not stop them from enjoying their favorite hobby. Via the Internet, they were able to acquire unique, investment-grade pieces by bidding in Hake’s $2.…
Thornwillow Press in Newburgh, New York, is currently crowdfunding the first-ever fine press edition of Toni Morrison’s award-winning novel, Song of Solomon (1977). The novel will be letterpress-printed and hand-bound in limited quantities of either paper, cloth, half-leather, or full leather, each…
London — Friends of the National Libraries (FNL) has announced that it is leading a bid to save one of the most important private collections of manuscripts and printed books associated with some of the greatest writers in the United Kingdom. FNL is today launching an appeal and is in discussion…
The Grolier Club of New York is pleased to announce that the “Oath of a Freeman,” long considered one of the most notorious printing forgeries of all time, has been acquired by Kenneth W. Rendell and Shirley McNerney Rendell for donation to the Grolier Club. It will become a centerpiece of their…
New York — Illustration Art is at Swann Galleries Thursday, June 24. The sale will feature original works by luminaries such as Al Hirschfeld, Edward Gorey and Jo Mielziner, alongside cover designs for The New Yorker, Sunday comics, book illustrations and more
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Andrew Lenoir, proprietor of Ellipsis Rare Books in New York City:
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Wilton, CT – A typed letter written and signed by Albert Einstein to President Herbert Hoover in 1929, a one-page letter penned and signed by future President George Washington in 1783, and a charming photograph of baseball legend Lou Gehrig posing with a young boy, signed, with Babe Ruth in…
After the death of English novelist and biographer Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), her home at 84 Plymouth Grove, Manchester, where she wrote Cranford and welcomed visitors including Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Dickens, gradually fell into disrepair. Happily, the Regency-style villa reopened…
