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*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,…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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,…
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…
Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey also Includes Specially Commissioned Building Models Showing Palladio's Profound Influence on American Architecture
