The Morgan Library & Museum's Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling will…
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The J. Paul Getty Museum will open its Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages…
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Chapel Hill, N.C. - Feb. 2016 - A spring exhibition on view now in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Wilson Library celebrates the Rare Book Collection’s William Wordsworth Collection and related holdings in Romantic literature and British culture.
“Lyric Impressions: Wordsworth in…
Amherst, MA (February 15, 2016) - The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art presents Louis Darling: Drawing the Words of Beverly Cleary on view May 17 through November 27, 2016. Darling’s iconic images brought Cleary’s beloved characters Ramona, Beezus, Henry Huggins, Ellen Tebbits, and Ralph S.…
In a response to a plea from UK schools minister Nick Gibb to introduce secondary school children to literature "free from the constraints and analysis of public exams," Penguin will be offering a set of 100 Penguin Classics to school
On March 2, Sotheby's London will auction a rather extraordinary collection--that of Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, the last of the legendary (and literary) Mitford sisters. The selection consists of the contents of her final home, the Old Vicarage at Edensor on the Chatsworth estate. She died in…
What do a musical manuscript signed by Beethoven, a photograph of violin virtuoso Isaac Stern, and just-launched software have in common? All three will make their debuts at booth 505 at the California Antiquarian Book Fair, courtesy of Schubertiade Music & Arts co-founders Gabe Boyers and Drew…
If you're in Pasadena this week for Rare Book Week West and the 49th Annual California Antiquarian Book Fair, here are two auctions this weekend that might pique your interest:
Atglen, PA—Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. is pleased to announce the release of our newest collectible title, Mitchell's New General Atlas 1860 by Robert Lindberg.
Well, it is Hollywood after all (or close enough).
WASHINGTON - Book lovers rejoice: the Washington Antiquarian Book Fair returns to our nation’s capital! Celebrating its 41st year, the Fair returns this March 4-5, 2016 featuring new and longtime favorite exhibitors and collections. Over the course of two days, the fair will offer a chance for…
If you're heading down to California this week for Rare Book Week West - and the 49th Annual California Antiquarian Book Fair - here are a few special exhibitions at local institutions to tempt you (briefly) away from the bookseller stalls:
