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(Amherst, MA—March 26, 2014) Louise Fitzhugh’s beloved classic Harriet the Spy celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. To honor this momentous occasion, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts has created Harriet the Spy Turns Fifty, an exhibition of the book’s…
A wonderful selection of books on offer at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ monthly Bibliophile sale includes works by the great Romantic writers William Wordsworth and Lord Byron, as well as a small but perfectly formed section of books on flora. The sale will be held on Thursday 10th April in…
(Boston, MA, March 26, 2014)—“This is a show about books and manuscripts that are visually appealing,” says Stanley Cushing, the Boston Athenæum’s Anne C. and David J.
NANTUCKET, MA—The Nantucket Book Festival is pleased to announce the stellar line-up of authors featured at this year’s third annual event, which is quickly becoming the way to kick off summer. For three days, booklovers gather in various Nantucket venues that allow unprecedented access to notable…
LONDON, 24 March 2014—On 17 March 2014, the Expert Committee at the Royal Philatelic Society London - the oldest and most distinguished society of stamp scholars in the world - convened a special meeting with the singular purpose of re-authenticating the unique British Guiana One-Cent Magenta.…
Oxford, 25 March 2014—Joanna Trollope, one of the most-read British authors, has bequeathed her literary archive to Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries.
Joanna Trollope said, ‘The Bodleian is the ideal home for my archive; I couldn't be more honoured. My association with Oxford goes back a long way…
The Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) has named:Nahoko Uehashi from Japan winner of the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Author Award
Roger Mello from Brazil winner of the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award.
A selection of 339 ecclesiastical books from the collection of clergyman and controversialist Joseph Mendham sold on Thursday 20th March through Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions. A ‘white glove’ auction for the London based saleroom saw every lot sell for a total of £357,392.
Rupert Powell,…
NEW YORK, March 2014—The Museum of Modern Art announces Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs, the largest and most extensive presentation of Matisse's cut-outs ever mounted, on view from October 25, 2014, through February 8, 2015.
NEW YORK—One of the finest known signed copies of the first edition of Ray Bradbury’s seminal 1953 masterpiece, and most famous work Fahrenheit 451 in the original asbestos binding, no less—to ensure that the book would survive burning—is expected to bring more than $17,500, anchoring the deep…
