A complete three-volume set of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in first editions,…
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Manhattan-based Symphony Space is welcoming summer with its annual Bloomsday performance dedicated to celebrating James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses.
For the uninitiated, Bloomsday refers to the date--June 16--during which the events of Ulysses take place and the day is observed…
The simple green pine desk that Henry David Thoreau used during his famous stay at Walden Pond left Concord, Massachusetts, for the first time last week, bound for the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City, where it will be on exhibit beginning Friday, June 2. Alongside eighteen other…
A yearbook from Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, from Allen Ginsberg's graduating class of 1943, signed and annotated by the Beat Generation poet himself,
The Independent Online Booksellers Association would like to contribute to the continuing education of book collectors. Therefore, we are pleased to announce that we will again offer to a book collector a scholarship in the amount of $750 to be used at one of the several book seminars offered in…
New York—Swann Galleries’ May 25 auction of Graphic Design offered a cornucopia of inspired design spanning fin de siècle Art Nouveau masters to psychedelic concert posters.
New York, NY—The French refer to the seventeenth century as the Grand Siècle, or the Great Century.
BOSTON, MA—Marilyn Monroe’s final draft script for the unfinished 1962 film ‘Something’s Got to Give’ will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction.
Gabriel García Márquez working on "One Hundred Years of Solitude." Photograph by Guillermo AnguloImage courtesy of Harry Ransom Center
The Beatrix Potter Society is crossing the pond next month to host a three-day symposium at Connecticut College entitled, "Beatrix Potter in New London on the Thames River." Sponsored in conjunction with the college's Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives, the three-day program…
In need of some bookish beach reads for the upcoming long weekend? Get thee to a bookstore or library and fetch one of these five recommended novels:
