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

Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America 2024 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest Winners Announced

Major Donation by American Playwright Ken Ludwig Funds Historic Home of Shakespeare’s Daughter

Exhibitions

Clarence H. White (1871–1925) portrait of Belle da Costa Greene, 1911.

New Exhibition Pays Tribute to Leading Librarian Belle da Costa Greene

Portrait Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe Story Goes on Display

Bestiary in Visual Satire Explored in New Princeton Exhibition

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

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Unpublished Charles Dickens Letters Shed Light on Claim His Wife Was Bad Mother

Auctions

Auctioneer Richard Winterton with the Harry Potter book

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

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

The ‘Kilmarnock Burns’ and Original Scottish National Covenant Manuscript to Auction

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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

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

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

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

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