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Hujar: Contact is an exhibition exploring the life, times, and creative evolution of photographer…
Magna Carta Regis Johannis XV die Junii AD MCCXV Anno Regni XVII was published in 1816 to mark the…
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By Jeremy Howell
Instead of a Friday review, a Friday 'view' today -- a twelve-minute video describing the American Antiquarian Society: its collections, conservation processes, research projects. Watch for rare book dealer Bill Reese, historians David McCullough, Jill Lepore, and Nathaniel Philbrick, poet Honoree…
Austin, TX—Materials related to David Foster Wallace's posthumous novel "The Pale King" (April 2011) are now open for research at the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.
New York—On Tuesday, October 23, Swann Galleries will offer an auction of Aldine Imprints & Early Printed Books from the Library of Kenneth Rapoport, which features 100 books from the Venetian press of the scholar-publisher Aldus Manutius and his successors. This is the most extensive selection…
September 27, 2012 -- The American Writers Museum Foundation today announced they are the recipient of a grant from The Chicago Community Trust, metropolitan Chicago's community foundation. The American Writers Museum will be the first national museum in the U.S. dedicated to American writers.
I've been thinking lately about Huguette Clark. She died well over a year ago. What's happening to her extensive doll collection, supposedly worth millions? What about her rare books?
The British Library is to publish the never before seen diary written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1880 during his voyage as ship’s surgeon on the Arctic whaler the Hope, which has been hidden from public view for over a century. This dramatic and vivid account of Conan Doyle’s dangerous and bloody…
New York—A new category of collectors filled seats and bid over the telephone at Swann Galleries’ inaugural auction of Fine & Vintage Writing Instruments on September 13. The sale brought in nearly $250,000 and launched the first new department at Swann since the introduction of African-…
Earlier today, an extraordinary copy of Frankenstein was unveiled at rare bookseller Peter Harrington's London gallery, and a full-color catalogue was issued to cele
New York, NY — On Tuesday, November 8, the Museum of American Finance will open “Checks & Balances: Presidents and American Finance,” an exhibit on the financial challenges faced by American Presidents both in the Oval Office and in their personal lives. From its inception as an experiment in a…
