Fine Books News: Recent

The J. Paul Getty Museum will open its Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages…
The ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography sponsored by the International League of Antiquarian…
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New York - The New York Academy of Medicine Library has launched a new digital exhibit, “Facendo Il Libro: The Making of Fasciculus Medicinae, an Early Printed Anatomy.” The
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Los Angeles — For most people, a photograph is fairly straightforward - an image on a piece of paper with four straight edges and four corners.
This is not a drill. Repeat this is not a drill. Sylvia Plath's typewriter--the one she used to write The Bell Jar (1963) in spring-summer 1961--is going to auction in London on March 21. It is estimated to reach £40,000-60,000 ($57,000-$85,000).
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The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress welcomes the Kentucky Center for the Book as its newest affiliated center. The Kentucky Center is based at Kentucky Humanities in Lexington.
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New York — LiveAuctioneers, the world’s leading online marketplace for auctions of collectibles, antiques and fine art, today announced its participation in the Codex Consortium, which supports the Codex Protocol, a decentralized title registry for the $2 trillion arts & collectibles (A&C)…
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Miami Beach, FL — For summer 2018, The Wolfsonian-Florida International University is tapping into today’s fascination with Russian propaganda through two coinciding shows focused on early 20th-century Soviet graphic design.
Bright Young Booksellers
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Aaron Beckwith of Capitol Hill Books in Washington, DC:
With two Oscar-nominated films, Dunkirk and The Darkest Hour, plus a third, Churchill, hoisting Winston Churchill into the spotlight of late, bookseller Maggs Bro
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PBA Galleries continued their strong start in 2018 with their January 25th Americana - Travel & Exploration - World History - Cartography sale.
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Austin, Texas — The Harry Ransom Center draws on its extensive performing arts holdings to tell the story of one of American theater’s most popular forms of entertainment in t