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Il Ponte Auctions sells Books and Manuscripts on Tuesday, January 26, in 170 lots. Some interesting early printing and fine seventeenth- and eighteenth-century bindings in this one.
For book lovers, the highlight of the presidential inauguration earlier this week was easily Amanda Gorman’s reading of her poem, “The Hill We Climb” (although Biden’s family Bible turned bookish heads, as well).
Submissions are open for the prestigious 18th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography, to be awarded in May 2022 for new bibliographical publications printed between 2018-2021. The prize winner will receive $10,000 and an additional second and third prize of $5,000 and $3,000 will be awarded.
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If your stack of unread New Yorkers gives you anxiety, consider the stacks owned by Dr. Steven Lomazow, whose collection of historic magazines numbers 83,000. Lomazow was born a collector, as he told us in an interview back in 2009. He started, as many of us do, with stamps and coins. When he was a…
New Haven, CT — Elisabeth Fairman, Chief Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, will retire from the Yale Center for British Art on January 30, 2021, concluding a career that spans nearly four decades. A search for her successor will be forthcoming.
Bookbinding education in the UK has been given a welcome boost by The Clothworkers’ Company in London.
The suspension in 2020 of the Queen’s Bindery Apprenticeship Scheme at Windsor Castle, several years early due to the coronavirus pandemic, has left the country without a single full-time…
New York – The Winter Show 2021 takes place on an immersive online platform, on view from January 22-31, 2021 with VIP Preview Access on January 19– 21, 2021. Featuring 60 exhibitors, the virtual fair brings together a dynamic group of leading international dealers that represent a diverse and…
New York — On October 2, 1917 the American 77th division, made up of 694 men, launched an attack on the German lines dug into the Argonne Forest in Northeastern France believing that they were supported on both sides by French and other US forces. The flanks however did not progress as planned and…
Although N.C. Wyeth was born the same year that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow died, 1882, the two turned out to be perfect collaborators on the 1920 edition of "The Courtship of Miles Standish," Longfellow’s long-form narrative poem about the Plymouth Colony, first published in 1858. Wyeth had made a…
London — Exceedingly rare works by Galileo, Samuel Johnson and J.K. Rowling are among a selection of exceptional books and manuscripts brought together in Fifty Fine Items, the new catalogue from Peter Harrington featuring 50 standout collectibles from the 13th to the 21st century.
