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More than 70 Bibles and devotional works from from the Estate of Robert Funk will go under the…
A life-size bronze installation depicting Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson will be…
Auctions
On May 28th, 2015, PBA Galleries in San Francisco will offer at auction a rare baseball signed by then-Presidential candidate Franklin D.
Recent Publications
The Folio Society announces the publication of a new edition of the Hugo award-winning The Man in the High Castle. Considered Philip K.
Recent Publications
The Folio Society is proud to announce its publication of one of the most important American novels of the past few decades.
Auctions
DALLAS—Andy Warhol’s iconic screenprint Moonwalk, 1987—directly from
News
PHILADELPHIA, PA—The University of Pennsylvania Libraries is delighted to announce that it has acquired a copy of Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg’s Petit Code de la raison humaine, a book printed in France by Benjamin Franklin in 1782. It is one of only four known surviving copies of the book, and it is…
Auctions
Freeman's 23 April auction Books, Maps & Manuscripts including Photographs presented clients with a wide range of works on paper, including treasured first editions, presidential ephemera, early vistas of the American West and notable autograph materials.  The sale featured an assortment…
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The Library of Congress today launched its annual summer essay contest, in conjunction with public libraries in the Mid-Atlantic region, to encourage rising 5th- and 6th-grade students to reflect on books that have made a personal impact on their lives.
Exhibit
New York, NY, May 7, 2015—Around 1474 in Belgium something never seen in print before rolled off the press—the English language. William Caxton (ca. 1422-1491/1492), an English merchant and diplomat, had recently learned of the new technology of print invented by Johannes Gutenberg twenty years…
Exhibit
(Amherst, MA—May 6, 2015) The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art proudly announces its forthcoming exhibition of award-winning art and illustrations by Fred Marcellino.