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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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The Library of Congress Junior Fellows Summer Interns today presented
more than 130 items from 32 unique collections housed in more than 20
Library divisions. The display provides the opportunity for fellows to
discuss the historic significance of the collection items they have
researched,…
Where do you go to buy books when your country bans them? If you're Chinese, you go to Hong Kong:
DALLAS - As of today, July 25, collectors can officially download Heritage Auctions’ brand new Heritage Mobile Catalog (HMC) for iPad, completely free, at the Apple iTunes store.
Once in a while someone asks a fellow bibliophile (or group of bibliophiles) for a list of novels about books and collecting, and that person is then bombarded with a list. Poet's Pub, a British novel originally published in 1935, is one that I don't recall ever coming up in such conversations, so…
A lost short story by the New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield was uncovered in an archive at
It can be cliche to call someone a Renaissance Man, but in the case of antiquarian bookseller Ed Nudelman, it is apt. Book collectors and dealers will recognize the name Nudelman Rare Books, an ABAA antiquarian shop since 1983 that specializes in English and American literature, especially the Pre-…
New York, NY - England's Bodleian Library at Oxford University, established by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1602 and now the largest of the University's group of 'Bodleian Libraries', is renowned for its great treasures. Among them is one of the most important collections of medieval Hebrew illuminated…
SOUTHAMPTON, NY - July 2012 - This summer’s Hamptons economy appears to have made a significant rebound, that is if attendance, enthusiasm and sales at ArtHamptons are any indicator. Droves of art lovers poured through the lavish 45,000 square foot modular museum-like building that housed…
Our series profiling the next generation of antiquarian booksellers continues today with Katharina Koch, daughter of Joachim Koch, the proprietor of Books Tell You Why in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina:
