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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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Catalogue Review: Up-Country Letters, #16Well, Dear Reader, if you're a frequent follower of this blog, you will understand that I could not pass up the opportunity to review a catalogue titled Transcendentalism. Thoreau and Emerson being longtime favorites (and in that order). Coincidentally, I am…
Washington, DC - Through materials from the year 1000 to 2011, Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible offers a "biography" of one of the world's most famous books, the King James Bible of 1611, which marks its 400th anniversary this year. ????Given the interest in…
ITHACA, N.Y. (Sept. 13, 2011) - Cornell University Library's rich Human Sexuality Collection just got even richer, with the addition of more than 10,000 gay-themed photographs dating back to the 1860s.The Harry H. Weintraub Collection of Gay-Related Photography and Historical Documentation includes…
There is surely enough overlap between the book collecting world and the antiques world to make Maureen Stanton's new book, Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: Seeking History and Hidden Gems in Flea-Market America,
An unprecedented 112 authors, poets and illustrators will speak and
meet with their readers at the 2011 National Book Festival, sponsored by
the Library of Congress. The event, to be held Saturday, Sept. 24 and
Sunday, Sept. 25 on the National Mall - rain or shine - also will offer
more…
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Yes, it may only be Monday, but surely you are making bookish plans for next weekend, right? If you're anywhere in the NY/NJ/DE/MD/PA area, the mid-Atlantic chapter of the ABAA is hosting a mini book fair and sale at the Bookshop in Old New Castle in New Castle, Delaware.
Watch and listen as artist Werner Pfeiffer constructs and discusses Out of the Sky: 9/11, his World Trade Center artist's book/ sculpture. A beautiful work. If you are in/around Princeton, NJ, next weekend, a discussion and reception with Pfeiffer will take place on Saturday, September 17, 2011, at…
Catalogue Review: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books, #119David Lesser's catalogue is titled Rare Americana, and the subtitle is: a catalogue of significant and unusual imprints relating to America. True, true. Though if he had wanted to, he could have used a more sensational lede like: Murder…
