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Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Americana

Franklin Printing Company shop sign, circa 1920

Benjamin Franklin Book-Related Items to Auction

President Grover Cleveland's Signed Document Approving Utah Statehood Sold for $27,188

Bible Jackie Kennedy Read From at JFK’s Funeral to Auction

Photographs

An Inuit woman with her child, portrait by Beverly Bennett Dobbs

Wilson Centre for Photography Deposits Collection of Early Photographs at the Bodleian Libraries

Street Photographer Vivian Maier's Vintage Prints, Self-Portraits and Earliest Camera Work to Auction

New-York Historical Society Explores Bygone Landmarks of Lost New York

Rare Books

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: The Triumph by T.E. Lawrence

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Abu Dhabi International Book Fair

Nine Georgian Nationals arrested for Rare Book Thefts

Kronos Quartet  Music Manuscripts Acquired by Library of Congress

Book People

An early Raab ad

Steven Raab on Founding a Historical Documents Business 35 Years Ago

Applications Now Open for York Antiquarian Book Seminar 2024

Mare Booksellers' Richard Erdmann on Zines, Underground Press, and Collecting Samuel Beckett

Visual Art

The original watercolor illustration for the cover of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Original Harry Potter Cover Illustration to Auction with $600,000 Estimate

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Tennis Posters

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Golden Age of American Illustration

Book Arts

Underdog - The Other Other Bronte starring (left to right) Rhiannon Clements as Anne, Gemma Whelan as Charlotte, Adele James as Emily

World Premiere of New Bröntes Play Opens at National Theatre

The Creative Process of Italy's Most Prolific Small Publisher, Alberto Casiraghy

A New Book Examines 100 Years of the Historic Queen Mary's Dolls' House Library

Exhibitions

Mort Drucker, The Oddfather (parody of The Godfather), illustration for MAD #155 (EC, 1972). Ink on board . Private Collection

Original MAD Magazine Illustrations Featured in New Norman Rockwell Museum Exhibition

Raymond Briggs' Writing and Drawing Desk Goes on Display for First Time

Exhibition of Book-like Objects Opens at at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Maps

Gerrit de Veer, VVaerachtighe Beschryvinghe Uan drie seylagien (Amstelredam: Cornelis Claesz, 1598). Engraving, 7.8 x 19.5 in (19.6 x 49.5 cm).

Early Maps, Photographs and Artists’ Books Chart 500 years of the Arctic

Early Baseball Sheet Music, Arrowsmith’s Maps, JFK Presentation Copy: Auction Preview

Rare New Amsterdam Map Helps Reveal Life in New York Before New York

Auctions

The Remarkable Kennedys

JFK Memorabilia Leads Fine Autographs and Artifacts Auction

Bible Jackie Kennedy Read From at JFK’s Funeral Sold for $162,500

Yosemite Photographs, Fly Fishing, Jefferson Letter: Auction Preview