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Highlights of the Potter & Potter Houdiniana & Magic Memorabilia auction on April 18…
Highlights from the collection of rare book dealer, publisher, and collector David Aronovitz will…
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On Jan. 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation took effect, formally ending slavery in the United States.
FALLS CHURCH, Va. - Even Scrooge might have eked out a curmudgeonly smile on December 6th at Waverly Rare Books, as the hammer fell on a collection of 30 leather-bound books comprising the “Works of Charles Dickens.” The 1861-63 Library Edition containing such classics as Oliver Twist, A Tale of…
Malton is a sleepy market town of about 4,000 people in north Yorkshire. The closest special collection is at the University of York, about 20 miles to the southeast. And
Ah, the week between Christmas and New Year's Day--for much of the publishing world, it means a full week off. Which means a week of leisurely reading and browsing new books. If you read my last post, you'll know some of the books now on my nightstand.
The South's oldest library, the Charleston Library Society, has created an in-house book bindery to begin repairs on its extensive collection and to bind by hand new
I read all year long--books, newspapers, magazines, online articles. The books are sometimes work-related--those I'm reviewing for FB&C--but, more often than not, I read books for pleasure, and I average one per week. (Right now I'm reading Dana Spiotta's Eat the Document. It's fantastic.) I'm…
PLEASANT VALLEY, N.Y., Dec. 20, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A rarecollection of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt memorabilia will be auctioned from the estate of a close and personal friend of the Roosevelt family, Margaret Logan Marquez. The auction will take place online by United Country -- Absolute…
Time may be getting short to see Billy Sullivan's Bird Drawings exhibit at Glenn Horowitz's East Hampton Gall
Today marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Die Kinde
Alden Kamaunu and Larry Smith from the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries take a break after building the 2012 holiday book tree in the Mathewson-IG
