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Americana

Bob Dylan's lyrics and harmonica

Bob Dylan Unpublished Handwritten Religious Lyrics Sold for $25,000 at Auction 

Counterculture and the 1960s: Five Rare Books for Collectors

National Archives Building Receives Historic Landmark Designation and Plaque

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

Auctions

'Fantastic Four' No. 1

'Fantastic Four' No. 1 Sold for $2m

Kilmarnock Burns, Great "She" Bible, Robert E. Lee Letter: Auction Preview

Letters by Robert E. Lee, Einstein, Emerson, and U.S. Presidents to Auction

Book People

David M. Szewczyk

Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company Announces Death of David M. Szewczyk

Tim Youd's Quest to Read Closely by Retyping 100 Novels

Belle da Costa Greene: Rediscovering the Black Woman Who Made the Morgan Library

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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

Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet Becomes Interactive AI Avatar

Ptolemy’s 'Geographia': Rare Book of the Week

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

Maps

This map was used in the Union Depot train station in El Paso, Texas, and has signatures and unit patches from soldiers who passed through. It’s now on view at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.

World War II Maps of Service and Sacrifice

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Maps

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

Visual Art

Historian Emily Cockayne’s cover embroideries that she is making for a book quilt include Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work.

Stories in Stitchery as a Reading List Becomes a Quilt

Rare Baseball Card Sets Lead Heritage's Fall Sports Auction

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Fairground Posters

Rare Books

Children of the People by Jacob A. Riis

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Capital & Growth

William Golding's Notebooks, Letters, and 'Lord of the Flies' Manuscripts in New Anniversary Exhibition

Kipling’s 'The Jungle Book' Proofs and Wilkie Collins’ Travelling Desk Acquired by Cambridge University Library

Exhibitions

Photograph of Martha, Amalia and Sigmund Freud on holiday at Altaussee, Austria. 1905. Photographer unknown.

Freud's Love Letters Featured in New Exhibition About the Women in His Life

Greenwich Village Counterculture Chronicled at New York Public Library

New Exhibition Pays Tribute to Leading Librarian Belle da Costa Greene