Mare Booksellers, ABAA ILAB IOBA

Punk Zines, Underground Press

Visual Art

Jessie Willcox Smith, The Green Door cropped

Golden Age Illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith: A Perennial Favorite

Record for Sendak's Wild Things at Heritage's $6-Million Auction

Folio Society Publishes Limited Edition of The Lord of the Rings

Book People

Image of Katherine Litwin

Bright Young Librarians: Katherine Litwin

Bloomsday, the Rosenbach’s Annual Celebration of Joyce’s Ulysses, Returns

For Sale: Hilary Mantel’s Writing Desk

Americana

Charles A. Lindbergh, with Spirit of St. Louis in background, May 31, 1927

For Sale: Charles Lindbergh’s Book Contract

5 Early 19th-Century Laws for Library Borrowers

1774 Printing of Phillis Wheatley Letter Acquired by MoAR

Maps

Olaus Magnus’ Carta marina

Cartographer Olaus Magnus' Map of Sea Monsters

Maps in the Time of Cholera

Sponsored

Maurice Sendak's Poster Illustration

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

For Those Who Want Choices

The Catawiki Books Department Expands Its Reach

Book Arts

Shakespeare scholar Ella Hawkins bakes and designs intricately decorated cookies (or biscuits) that take a page from antiquarian books and medieval manuscripts.

The Art of Bookish Baking

Postcard from CODEX 2022: “Words on the Edge”

Early Printed Books at Swann, Featuring Collection of Ken Rapoport

Photographs

An installation photograph from the posthumous exhibition of Manet's work at the École des Beaux-Arts

The Morgan Digitizes Tabarant Collection of Manet Photographs

Video Fridays: PhotoBook Club

Picturing California in a New Photobook & Exhibition

Rare Books

Biblio.live promo image

Biblio.live Virtual Book Fair Returns in June

Antiquarian Book Fairs Summer 2022: UK Edition

Antiquarian Book Fairs Summer 2022: US Edition

Auctions

A rare, contemporary broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence

Reese Sales Raise More Than $16 Million

Focus on Women at Swann June 2: Alcott, Parks & More

“Unburnable” Edition of The Handmaid’s Tale Heads to Auction

Exhibitions

The Morgan Library & Museum

The Morgan Library Celebrates the Building of a Book-Lover’s Paradise

Opening at the Rosenbach: 18 Reasons to Read Ulysses

Exhibit Marks 200 Years of Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olmsted