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The ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography sponsored by the International League of Antiquarian…
A life-size bronze of writer Sylvia Townsend Warner has been unveiled in Dorchester her home county…
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Having shaken the dust of Stuttgart from our proverbial shoes, this week Marcia and I packed up our Volvo with stock, and set off for Dunkirk, the ferry to Dover, and eventually the PBFA Cambridge book fair.
Dallas, Texas - Not only did the earliest artifact referring to George Washington as the "
Dallas, Texas - The original art for The Amazing Spider-
New York— On Tuesday, March 13, Swann Galleries will offer a superlative auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, featuring original artworks and scarce multiples by some of the most influential artists of the last 200 years.
Not quite as many sales this week as things gear up for Rare Book Week New York, but I'll have my eyes on a trio of very different auctions:
Jane Austen's novels criticizing sentimentalism, the British landed gentry, and women's dependence on marriage have remained in print continuously since 1832, when the publisher Richard Bentley purchased the copyrights of all six of Austen's works. For the past 186 years those stories have thrilled…
Peter Harrington, one of the world’s largest rare booksellers, is attending the New York Antiquarian Book Fair this March with a selection o
The Bibliophile as Bookbinder: The Angling Bindings of S.A.
Opening this weekend at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is an exhibition titled Beyond Words: Book Illustration in the Age of Shakespeare. Curated by Caroline Duroselle-Melish, it includes more than eighty rare books and prints from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century and…
