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A complete three-volume set of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in first editions,…
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Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Rebecca Romney, of Honey & Wax Booksellers, and author of Printer's Error, out next week from HarperCollins.
PBS has been a savior these past few months, not only as an impeccable source of "real" news but also of escape. Its new historical drama series about Queen Victoria pulled me through the inauguration haze (and, yes, I do see some irony there).
RANKLIN, Mass. - A pair of drawings on white paper by the renowned Russian-born French artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985) combined for over $25,000 in an online-only fine art auction held February 22nd by The Woodshed Gallery, based in Franklin. The sale featured nearly 200 prints and drawings by Old…
American photographer Todd Webb (1905-2000) was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan.
Symposium will feature leading scholars in the field and an inaugural exhibit of antique books of Mesoamerica and Colonial Mexico
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New York— On Thursday, March 2, Swann Galleries’ sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings ex
The Library of the Late Hubert Dingwall, featuring rare and historic books collected by Hubert Dingwall over 70 years, will be the first collection to go under the hammer at Dreweatts & Bloomsbu
AUSTIN, Texas — The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the papers of actors, and husband and wife, Eli Wallach (1915-2014) and Anne Jackson (1925-2016). Known as method actors and early members of the Actors Studio in New York, Wallach and Jackson had extensive…
It's Rare Book Week in New York City with the New York Antiquarian Book Fair running from Thursday through Sunday, as well
