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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,…
News
*15th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography* The 15th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography has been awarded to three outstanding bibliographies. The jury considered and discussed 52 works on the history of books, book production and libraries. The new endowment of the ILAB Bibliography Prize,…
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Four Prominent Book Sellers Join Forces to Open The Bookshop in Old New Castle
Yale Arts Library Receives Hand Bookbinding CollectionNew Haven, Conn.—Yale University’s Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library has received a significant and generous gift of hand bookbindings from Sarah Valentine Nerber, daughter of bookbinder Mary Ellet Kendall Valentine and James A. Valentine.…
Recent Publications
Gunter Grass Joins List of Nobel Authors Published by Oak Tree Fine Press German author Günter Grass’ strident and powerful 1999 Nobel Lecture, ‘To be Continued…’ is to be published in a signed limited edition to raise money for children made vulnerable by poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa. The…
Exhibit
Artists’ books, part of a radical avant garde movement, take a leap beyond the kind of text and illustrations normally associated with the book to carry the viewer to new vistas of aesthetic, emotional and intellectual awareness.  Some artists’ books arrive on our visual doorstep bearing…
Auctions
A pair of 40-Bore pistols owned by accomplished big game hunter Major Dick Cooper, best friend of Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke and friend of Ernest Hemingway, are to be offered at Bonhams, Knightsbridge as part of the Fine Antique Arms and Armour sale on 29th April 2010. The pistols, by John…
Events
Bonhams will host the launch of `First Sixty’ the Acumen Anthology, a celebration of 25 years of the best poetry featured by the magazine produced by Patricia Oxley, Danielle Hope, Glyn Pursglove, and William Oxley. At the launch event there will be a short reading, a cocktail party, and …
Recent Publications
Based entirely upon the Lilly Library's collections, a new work joins the ranks of bibliographical and historical publications that document the long, complicated history of Mexico-Texas relations before 1849. Lilly Texana: One Hundred Eighty Broadsides and Other Ephemera Relating to Texas,…
Auctions
National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, recently sold a Maurice Sendak pencil on paper sketch for an impressive hammer price of $4,250. This 1974 (9" by 7 1/2") sketch by Sendak is matted and includes Sendak's signature below the drawing as well as an explanatory note to the animators in…
Exhibit
Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey also Includes Specially Commissioned Building Models Showing Palladio's Profound Influence on American Architecture