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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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Should your travels bring you to Cambridge, Massachusetts, this spring, chart a path toward Harvard's Houghton Library, where Landmarks: Maps as Literary Illustration opened last week. Curated by Peter X. Accardo, the exhibition showcases sixty literary maps that bring to life such imagined places…
New York, NY — After five days and eight sessions, Sotheby’s annual Americana Week sales concluded on Sunday with a total of $13.9 million and nearly 1,000 lots sold across two auctions. The week kicked off with the sale of Important Printed and Manuscript Americana, including Cartography, which…
Ursula K. Le Guin, one of the great writers of the 20th century, passed away Tuesday at her home in Portland, Oregon. She was 88 years old.
Almost a year ago today, book artist Richard Minsky announced his purchase of a 1935 first edition It Can't Happen Here, a dystopian political novel by Sinclair Lewis that experienced a surge in popularity after the 2016 presidential election.
PBA Galleries started 2018 off strongly with their first sale of the year on January 11th. The sale offered over 700 lots of important literature spanning four centuries, with additional fine books in a variety of fields including finely bound books, fine press books, miniatu
New York— Swann Auction Galleries launches into 2018 with the wide-ranging auction Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks on Thursday, February 15.
New York - Facing the Camera will be on view at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs from January 24 through March 16, 2018.
Forum Auctions in London holds a sale of Fine Books and Works on Paper on Thursday, January 25, in 385 lots.
Falls Church, VA - On Thursday, January 25, the Waverly Rare Books & Prints division of Quinn’s Auction Galleries will present the first on two sales devoted to prints reflecting the natural world in its many forms, with Part II to follow in May.
