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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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DALLAS - General George Armstrong Custer’s personally owned Army-issue Model 1865 Spencer Carbine brought $179,250 to claim top lot honors in Heritage Auctions’ $2.5+ million Political, Western Legends & Americana Signature® Auction, Dec. 11-12.
December 18, 2012--The Library of Congress will place on display the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, handwritten by President Abraham Lincoln, for six weeks beginning Jan. 3, 2013, to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the proclamation’s signing.
The library at the presidential palace of India, "Rashtrapati Bhavan," is undergoing a major
New York, NY, December 14, 2012—Few artistic movements of the twentieth century are as celebrated and studied as surrealism. Many of the works of its best known practitioners—including Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, and Leonora Carrington—have become touchstones of modern art…
This is 'volume three' in a series of posts following the progress of the upcoming Grolier Club exhibition on children's literature. In previous posts, we have discussed how the project got started and how the Club's list compared to the Library of Congress' Books That Shaped America list.
Catalogue Review: Bauman Rare Books, Holiday 2012The thing about a Bauman Rare Books catalogue is that it makes you want to settle into a comfy chair with a hot toddy, fireside, before turning the cover. It is an experience to be savored. The catalogue is thick, shiny, colorful, and has gilded…
COLLEGE STATION, Dec. 13, 2012 ? Cushing Memorial Library and Archives at Texas A&M University will host science fiction author George R.R. Martin, whose book series “A Song of Ice and Fire” is the basis for the hit HBO show “Game of Thrones.” The library will exhibit the works and personal…
New York, December 13, 2012 -- The Grolier Club Library is pleased to announce its tenth annual fellowship offering in the history of the book, named in honor of Grolier Club benefactor and former president William H. Helfand. Awards of up to $3,000 are available for research in the Library's areas…
48 Doughty Street. That's where "Oliver Twist" and "Nicholas Nickleby" were written by a young Charles Dickens, only in his mid-20s. Between 1837 and 1839 Dickens and his family lived in the Doughty Street resid
It's no secret that Edgar Allan Poe had a murky romantic life. Anyone who has taken American Lit 101 knows that he married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm. But she wasn't his first love or his last. Elmira Royster Sheldon holds both honors, and it was to this lady that the engagement ring…
