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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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The mass market edition of To Kill a Mockingbird, long a staple in classrooms across the country, will soon be discontinued.
Whispered about by hopeful collectors and scholars for decades, the manuscript of H.P. Lovecraft's The Cancer of Superstition, commisssioned and co-written by magician Harry Houdini, has finally come to light. It was rather incredibly "discovered by a private collector among the records of a now-…
New York—On Thursday, April 7, Swann Galleries will hold an auction of African-American Fine Art, featuring works by modern and contemporary artists.
Today would have been the 100th birthday of author-illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983), whose groundbreaking work incorporating minorities as protagonists in children's books earned him worldwide admiration and acclaim. Keats, a lifelong New Yorker and child of poor Polish-Jewish immigrant…
"I set out from the start to broaden my outlook and to learn about the beautiful world we live in"
The Library built by the late Hugh Selbourne, who was a General Practitioner and consultant physician in Manchester from 1938 until his death in 1973, has been sold at Bonhams in London for £2,600,000…
Shapero Rare Books, the London-based rare book and print dealer, will showcase its new purpose-built stand at this year’s
A unique Andy Warhol silkscreen print of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands is one of many artifacts to be found at Shapero Rare Books’s stand at this year’s TEFAF.
The Center for Book Arts presents its annual History of Art series in collaboration with the New York Chapter of the American Printing History Ass
New York—Swann Galleries’ February 25 auction Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks brought over $1,640,000, lead by a storied print by Ansel Adams.
