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Decorations and holiday trees inspired by poems, traditional tales, and children’s books are on…
A complete three-volume set of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in first editions,…
Exhibit
Yale University’s Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, 180 York Street, will host the exhibition “Material Meets Metaphor: A Half Century of Book Art by Richard Minsky” from August 2 through November 29. The exhibition covers 50 years of Minsky’s work — from a 1960 sample book, used when he…
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We, as an organization and as individual booksellers, do all we can to combat theft of books.
Auctions
Bloomsbury Auctions Presents Important Works from Borges and Steinbeck in its Travel, Literature, Autographs and Fine Books Sale, Wednesday, June, 23, 2010 at 10am and 2pm
Auctions
National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, will hold a special film, photography and art-related auction on June 27th that features the first session of the auction gallery’s art, film and photography-themed collections along with many select book and ephemera lots.
Exhibit
Eric Carle, internationally known for his beautiful and highly original tissue paper collages, employs bright colors and bold shapes to create images that are appealing and direct. The Carle’s new exhibition in the West Gallery, Eric Carle Prints and Papers, provides a rare opportunity to view some…
Events
HYDE PARK, NY. On Saturday, June 19, 2010, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will host its seventh annual Roosevelt Reading Festival. New Deal scholar and Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University Alan Brinkley will deliver the…
Auctions
New York -- On Thursday, June 17 Swann Galleries will conduct a two-part auction of Maps & Atlases, Books with Plates, Ephemera; and 19th & 20th Century Literature, Art & Illustrated Books, and Decorative Graphics.The sale begins with a selection of atlases, which features a complete…
Picture by Pakistan’s ‘Picasso’ Who Illustrated Camus Novel, in Bonhams Middle East & South Asian Art Sale A painting by Sadequain (Pakistan, 1937-1987) titled ‘Three sitting figures’, is estimated to sell for£23,000-28,000 at Bonhams Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern & South Asian…
Catalogues
Trying to find information on printed antique maps can be frustrating.  Collectors like reference works to list maps of a particular region and parts of that region in publication date order. Such a work exists for antique maps of North America ... but it only goes up to the year 1700. What…
News
David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and managing director of The Carlyle Group, announced today his donation of $5 million ($1 million per year for the next five years) to support the Library of Congress’s National Book Festival, which this year is celebrating its 10th anniversary, “A Decade of…