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Magna Carta Regis Johannis XV die Junii AD MCCXV Anno Regni XVII was published in 1816 to mark the…
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Our series profiling the next generation of antiquarian booksellers continues today with Simon Beattie of Chesham, England.
For those of you with our spring issue in hand, one of our longer features is about Queen Victoria and the opening of Victoria Revealed, a major exhibit at Kensington Palace about the queen's childhood ("I was only a child and a lonely one indeed.")
AUSTIN, Texas—Thomas Smith (b. 1938), visual effect producer for such films as "Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back" (1980) and "E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial" (1982), has donated his archive to the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.
Last month, Reuters reported that the Encyclopaedia Britannica was ending publicatio
April 2, 2012--The Library of Congress has acquired the initial portion of the personal papers of the American director, producer, actor and acting teacher Lee Strasberg (1901-1982), internationally known for his development of method acting in the Stanislavsky tradition, which deeply influenced…
MIDDLEBURG, VA - “Shooting Flying” in Literature and Art introduces visitors to the range of literature on shooting wildfowl that exists in the Library’s collection. Books on display date from the 18th century through the 21st. Works of art from the NSLM collection and from private lenders enrich…
When you think of literary cities you might visit in the U.S., what comes to mind? New York City; Concord or Amherst, Massachusetts; Hannibal, Missouri; Monterey, California--you get the drift. But Rochester, New York? According to LiteraryTourist.com's recent 'literary audit,' Rochester has a…
Can people be romantically linked by the books they read? The Canada-based bookselling site, Abebooks.com, thinks so. Today Abebooks launched BiblioCupid, a dating service that "uses a specially designed love algorithm" to match mates based on their shared literary tastes.
New York—On Tuesday, April 17, Swann Galleries will conduct a sale of Revolutionary Americana from the Allyn Kellogg Ford Collection, followed by Autographs. The Ford collection contains some of the most significant Revolutionary War letters ever to come to auction.
