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Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Maggie Vanderford, Librarian for…
Highlights of Swann Galleries' annual summer Vintage Posters auction on July 30 include:* Ernest…
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Last week the Library of Congress in collaboration with the Washington Post released the first of four short videos featuring four U.S. poets laureate in a series called “The Poetry of Home.” Marking National Poetry Month, the series debuted on April 10 with current U.S.
The Dear Mr. Poole exhibition at the Cartoon Museum in London has been one of the casualties of the coronavirus lockdown, but happily a sizable section of it has now been put online for readers to visit virtually.
Dallas, TX – The stunning original art for Bernie Wrightson’s Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein Front Endpapers Illustration Original Art (late 1970s) and a Frank Frazetta painting that appeared on the cover of The Serpent each could bring $250,000 or more in Heritage Auctions’ Comics…
Boston — RR Auction's annual spring Space sale features an extraordinary assortment of nearly 700 lots, with online bidding from April 9 - April 16.
Headlining the sale is a rare and highly desirable Northwest Africa 5000 Lunar Meteorite Slice.
This is the very first, only, and last time a…
Earlier today, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) hosted a 90-minute webinar to discuss how the COVID-19 health crisis is affecting antiquarian booksellers around the world. ILAB president, Australian bookseller Sally Burdon, moderated the lively discussion, which included…
Our Bright Young series continues today with Christy Smirl who has blended together elements of bookselling, librarianship, and interior design in a unique business model with her company Foxtail Books & Library Services in Jackson Hole, Wyoming:
How did you get started working with rare…
Access to reliable and relevant information is vital in a time of crisis. Many of our colleagues are concerned about the following weeks and months, have spend weeks re-organizing the business, were forced to lock up shops, send staff on leave or furlough or are simply in lockdown at home.
London — A selection of 85 books and manuscripts that offer an enticing selection of some of the most sought after and desirable works by leading lights of the Islamic and Arabic-speaking world.
New York – LiveAuctioneers, whose online bidding platform is used by more than 6,000 auction houses and reaches millions of bidders worldwide, is offering special assistance both to clients and charitable organizations as COVID-19 continues to wield its devastating impact on businesses and…
Next week, a collection of English novelist Rudyard Kipling formed by the late Joan Twigg in conjunction with her husband Oliver Twigg, the proprietor of The Totteridge Rare Book Shop, comes to auction (online) at Doyle in New York. Because of their trade association, the Twiggs assembled a strong…
