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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Jacob Riis (1849-1914), a pioneering newspaper reporter and social reformer in New York at the turn of the 20th century, is the focus of a new book and exhibitions at four venues in the U.S. and Denmark. His photographs of the city’s slums illustrated the plight of impoverished residents and…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Helene Golay of Lorne Bair Rare Books in Winchester, Virginia:
LOS ANGELES, October 13, 2015—The 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Dr. Alan Lloyd Hodgkin will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on October 29. It is the only 13th Nobel Prize to go under the hammer. Interested bidders may participate in the auction online.
LONDON Maddox Street—The collection of 244 lots is one of the largest of its type to be auctioned in the UK and will be sold at Bloomsbury Auctions on Thursday 29t
On November 2, 1865, General William Tecumseh Sherman put pen to paper in order to decline endorsing an acquaintance's book. "...I did...partially examine the bo[o]ks sent me but I would not be willing to express...an endorsement. The book like all others of which very many are sent to me must work…
Over the weekend, we heard the sad news that Miami collector Ruth Sackner, who, with her husband Marvin, founded the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, passed away in her sleep on Saturday night. She was 79.
San Francisco Bay Area, CA, October 12, 2015—Lifestyle blog Sweet Little Luxuries shows women how to create happiness every day by styling a lovely life and, moreover published Laugh, Love, Lick Chocolate Frosting: Your Adventure to Happiness to guide women. One of the original handwritten, hand-…
New York—On October 27, 2015, Swann Galleries' Books & Manuscripts department will offer Early Printed & Medical Books, featuring Bibles, incunabula, early grammars and dictionaries of exotic languages, and works on missionary travel and Eastern Church history and l
American fiction has spun few characters as troubling as Humbert Humbert, the narrator of Lolita.
Coming to auction this week at the UK-based auction house Cheffins is this beautifully bound private press book with illustrations by Welsh artist Kyffin Williams.
