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Amherst, MA—The first-ever museum consideration of the Jewish picture book, Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books, will travel from Los Angeles to The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and the Yiddish Book Center from October 15th through January 23rd.
September 14, 2010. AUSTIN, Texas—The archive of David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), author of "Infinite Jest" (1996), "The Broom of the System" (1987), "Girl with Curious Hair" (1989) and numerous collections of stories and essays, is now open at the Harry Ransom Center. A finding aid for the…
New York--On Thursday, September 30, Swann Galleries will offer a wide-ranging array of Printed & Manuscript Americana at auction, including many unique and unusual items.
Sotheby's London 9 September 2010 --- On 7th December Sotheby’s London will hold a sale of ‘Magnificent Books, Manuscripts and Drawings from the Collection of Frederick, 2nd Lord Hesketh, The Property of the Trustees of the 2nd Baron Hesketh’s Will Trust’. The selection of books, manuscripts and…
Sept. 7, 2010—The University of Delaware Library announces the availability of a new digital collection, the William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection. An enlarged version of each bookplate, as well as the Rev. Brewer's handwritten notes and catalog numbers, can be viewed by clicking on “…
ITHACA, NY National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, held an August 29th auction with a Civil War-themed catalog that also featured another round of Maurice Sendak signed books, artwork and posters as well as a rare collection of FOC Darley original illustrations.
August 9, 2010 - Leslie Hindman Auctioneers’ August 12 Fine Books and Manuscripts auction boasts a wide range of highlights, including a fine first printing of Samuel Johnson’s groundbreaking Dictionary of the English Language (Lot 65), in two volumes, which carries an estimate of $10,000-15,000,…
NEW YORK, NY, August 2, 2010—More than 30 examples of successful efforts to digitize historically significant materials at leading libraries in North America are profiled in the new book Digitization in the Real World, published this week by the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), one of…
The First Light is a new book with unusual credentials. Its publisher is a library. It is one of only two or three hot metal letterpress books to be published in the United Kingdom in 2009. It is hand finished and leather bound in an edition limited to 500. Selling at £150, each copy is…
