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A complete three-volume set of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in first editions,…
Throughout the year we have enjoyed suggesting the best new books about the many and varied facets…
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support a two-year, $195,000 project to a
Bookfinder.com, an online price comparison tool for books, releases an annual list of its most searched for out-of-print books.
For more than five decades, 80-year-old English cartoonist Gerald Scarfe has been at the ready with his pen to comment on the political and cultural scene. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and the Sunday Times, as well as in theatre and film. On April 5, 130 of his originals go to auction at…
The ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography will be awarded again in 2018 and is one of the most prestigious prizes in the field of bibliography.
A prize with tradition and a strong support for scholarship: The Breslauer Prize for Bibliography awarded by the…
LOS ANGELES, March 27, 2017 - Original handwritten lyrics by musician and Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on March 30, 2017.
Washington, D.C. - March 28, 2017 - In an era torn by partisan division and “fake news,” the Washington Antiquarian Book Fair is offering a welcome antidote: its 42nd annual celebration of books, knowledge and learning, April 28-29, 2017, in the heart of our nation’s capital.
While there are only a few days left, if you're in the United Kingdom you may want to swing up to Edinburgh to check out a new festival, "Rare Books Edinburgh," which is coming toward the end of its
It was in 1817 that brothers James and John Harper opened a small printing shop in New York City.
ITHACA, NY--Worth Auctions, located in Dryden, NY, announces the launch of their next auction catalog.
Designed to educate, amuse, or advertise, pictorial maps were a clever and colorful component of print culture in the mid-20th century, often overlooked in studies of cartography. A new book published by the Library of Congress in association with the University of Chicago Press, “Picturing America…
