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Dickensian London: The Magic Lantern City is a new exhibition exploring the city which…
The Jack Kerouac Center has released new architectural renderings by Boston-based Flansburgh…
Auctions
New York/London/Hong Kong—January 19, 2011—Christie’s International, the world’s leading art business, and Runway to Green announce the second annual “Bid to Save the Earth” Green Auction. The online auction, powered by charitybuzz.com, is open from March 17th to April 7th and…
Auctions
BEVERLY HILLS, CA—Famed illustrator Garth Williams’ original graphite 1953 cover art for Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder—familiar image to anyone that has read the classic books since the Fifties—will be part of Heritage Auctions’ Feb. 11 Signature® Illustration Art Auction in…
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AUSTIN, Texas—The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, received $137,015 from the Council on Library and Information Resources' (CLIR) Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant for "Revealing Texas Collections of Comedias…
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PHILADELPHIA—The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $490,700 to the University of Pennsylvania Libraries to create online cataloging records for 33,500 titles in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library Culture Class Collection. Administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (…
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Dr. Susan M. Allen Named Director of California Rare Book School 
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DURHAM, N.C. - The Duke University Libraries have received a $1.25 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a new senior conservator position to help care for the Libraries’ extensive research collections. During the next three years, the Libraries will raise a matching $1…
Recent Publications
Binding and the Archeology of the Medieval and Renaissance Book is the first in a series of specialized catalogues LES ENLUMINURES gallery will publish as part of its Twentieth Anniversary Year celebration. 
Auctions
ITHACA, NY—National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, will feature a number of important vintage and antique first editions and a large collection dedicated to the history of the New England States. A unique collection of handwritten documents from the collection of William Howland highlighted…
Exhibit
The Morgan Library & Museum Presents Month-Long Exhibition of Photographs by Massimo Listri of the Great Libraries of Europe Show coincides with the reopening of the Morgan's original 1906 library and includes twenty-three large-format photographs of such magnificent rooms as Trinity…
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November 17, 2010—Today, the Portland Area Used Booksellers Association (PAUBA) announces the launch of its new web service www.pdxusedbooks.org, allowing visitors to search the collected online inventories of PAUBA member bookstores. “Portlanders embrace the idea of buying locally,” said Debbie…