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A new exhibition at The Grolier Club looks at the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early…
The Ephemera Society of America's Ephemera 46 Fair opens today and runs through March 22 with…
Four national libraries across Ireland and the United Kingdom have been awarded €750,000 through the UK-Ireland Cultural Co-operation Programme for Across These Islands: Shared Histories, Shared Futures, a first-of-its-kind partnership to widen access to their national collections, deepen research…
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Shetland Museum and Archives will host the final instalment of The National Library of Scotland’s centenary programme later this month with a focus on the poet Hugh MacDiarmid.Running March 28 through June 20, Outwith: Valda, MacDiarmid and Whalsay will focus on the years that MacDiarmid (pen name…
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The annual Swann Galleries Printed & Manuscript African Americana sales was launched in March 1996 by Wyatt Houston Day who was the specialist for the first 22 sales.On March 19, the ninth Printed & Manuscript African Americana sale handled by Swann’s Americana specialist Rick Stattler will…
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The Bodleian Libraries’ Season of the Natural World is a slate of exhibitions inspired by the world around us beginning with Pets & their People which is currently running through September 27. These exhibitions at the Weston Library in Oxford will celebrate the beauty of the natural world…
Auctions
The original typescript scroll first draft of Jack Kerouac's On The Road has become the most expensive literary manuscript to sell at auction.Christie's had initially given the 1951 manuscript a $2.5m-$4m estimate following its sale for $2.4m in 2001 but it eventually sold for $12.135m in the Jim…
Auctions
A first edition of Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, an angry letter about edits to his publisher, and a Lincoln funeral train invitation are among the highlights of Heritage Auctions’ Extraordinary Dan Madsen Collection auction on March 18.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Treasures from the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg, is now running at the Morgan Library & Museum.
Book Fairs
The Stockholm Book Fair runs this weekend March 14-15 in the city's Academy of Fine Arts.The Swedish Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (Svenska Antikvariatföreningen) has organized the fair since 1959 and returns again to the halls of the Academy of Arts in the centre of Stockholm.
Book Fairs
“Exhibitors and participants from New York City to Reykjavik and Tokyo are convening to share their involvements and activities with contemporary art books” is how Printed Matter introduced the first NY Art Book Fair 20 years ago.
Exhibit
A new manuscript exhibition exploring how books of hours personally engaged users has opened at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.Curated from the Walters’ collection of rare books and manuscripts, Medieval Mindscapes features 22 works and is on view through August 23, 2026.