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Visual Art

C. W. Parker: The Jumping Horse "Carry-Us-All"

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Fairground Posters

Deadpool: Rob Liefeld’s Original Art for New Mutants No. 98 Cover Set at $7.5m

Golden Age Comics Dominate Hake’s $2.9M Pop Culture Auction

Rare Books

The Polydore Vergil bound for Queen Mary I

Polydore Vergil’s 'Anglica Historia': Rare Book of the Week

Gutenberg Bible Leaf: Rare Book of the Week

Unpublished Charles Dickens Letters Shed Light on Claim His Wife Was Bad Mother

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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

Archivist of the United States Dr. Colleen Shogan (right) and Brian Joyner, acting superintendent of Rock Creek Park (left), stand in front of the National Archives Building Historic Landmark plaque.

National Archives Building Receives Historic Landmark Designation and Plaque

Counterculture and the 1960s: Five Rare Books for Collectors

PulpFest 2024 Returns to Pittsburgh: Full Details

Book People

Vera Jiā Xī Mancini

David Ruggles Prize Winner Vera Jiā Xī Mancini on collecting 'Pride and Prejudice'

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Chief Executive Officer to Step Down

Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary with Virtual Book Fair

Maps

Amy Drevenstedt, The Flight of Charles A Lindbergh from New York to Paris, in His Mono-plane “The Spirit of St. Louis” on May 20-21, map, lithographed in four colors, 1927. Estimate $1,000 to $1,500.

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Maps

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

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

Auctions

Ernest Hemingway, WWI Photo Album Documenting his Service in the Ambulance Corps

Hemingway’s WWI Service

Harry Potter Bought For £3.50 Sells For £8,000 at Auction

Shem Tov Bible, Bastille Drawing, Einstein Letter about Nuclear Weapons: Auction Preview

Book Arts

An inside page of The Tragical Comedy of Punch & Judy

Incline Press Launch New Letterpress Edition of 'The Tragical Comedy of Punch & Judy'

New Publication Examines the History of Book Curses

A New Era for the Charleston Library Society, One of the Oldest Libraries in the US

Exhibitions

Jessie Tarbox Beals, Washington Mews, [1918], photographic postcard

Greenwich Village Counterculture Chronicled at New York Public Library

New Exhibition Pays Tribute to Leading Librarian Belle da Costa Greene

Portrait Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe Story Goes on Display

Photographs

Charles Dickens' carte de visite is among those going on display

Calling Cards of Darwin, Paxton, and Other Gardening Greats Go on Display for First Time

Photographer Elizabeth Menzies Focus of New Exhibition at Princeton University

David Bailey's Live Aid Photographs to Auction