The Morgan Library & Museum's Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling will…
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The Theodore Roethke Musuem in Saginaw, Michigan is planning a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the publication of Open House, Roethke's first book of poetry, in March 2016.
Today LiveAuctioneers, the online auction site, issued its 2015 sale highlights.
For those of you with an interest in emblem-books--a special type of illustrated book popular in the sixteenth and seventieth centuries that paired an image with a pithy moral lesson--you would do well to take note of both Professor Peter
ITHACA, NY—National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, announces the launch of their next auction catalog.
Palm Beach, FL—The 13th Annual Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show just got bigger! The show, which formerly spanned 5 days, has expanded into a 7-day event at the Palm Beach County Convention Center (650 Okeechobee Blvd, West Palm Beach, FL 33401) from February 10th to the 16th, 2016…
Amherst, MA—The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is pleased to present Magician of the Modern: The Art of Leonard Weisgard, on view from March 8 to June 5, 2016. This major American retrospective celebrates the award-winning career of renowned picture book illustrator Leonard Weisgard and…
NEW YORK, 22 December 2015—Sotheby’s set a new world auction record for any piece of Judaica today in New York, when one of the finest copies of Daniel Bomberg’s Babylonian Talmud sold for $9.3 million (estima
During this season of giving, some charities and organizations provide much-needed food and clothing, while others nourish the soul through gifts of books. Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt (HMH) donated nearly 100,000 volumes throughout the country during the holidays. These contributions are part of a…
Yesterday, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin launched a major new exhibit, Shakespeare in Print and Performance. Drawing on the Ransom Center's immense collection of Shakespeariana--performance materials, set designs, and printed books--the exhibit will mark the 400th…
A collection of iconic photographs from Robert Frank's seminal photobook, The Americans (1959), realized a total of $3,739,375 at Sotheby's New York last week.
