The Old Sage Bookshop

Quality used books for the collector, the seeker, and the avid reader. New books on regional topics.

Visual Art

Norman Thelwell Saves the Planet poster

Cartoonist Norman Thelwell Saves the Planet

Gould, Audubon, and Lear in New Exhibit Celebrating Writing About Birds

Books and Reading Centrestage at Chelsea Flower Show 2023

Book Arts

John Milton biscuits design developed in collaboration with Milton’s Cottage.

Celebrate National Biscuit Day with Remarkable John Milton Biscuits

Kickstarter Tribute to Library of Congress Rare Books Expert Mark Dimunation

Countdown begins to Festival of Libraries

Rare Books

Engraved pattern book of cast brass furniture fittings and other hardware

Five Rare Books for Collectors: House and Home

Thomas Cromwell’s Holbein Portrait Book of Hours Discovered

Unique Record of Medieval Live Comedy Performance Identified in a 15th Century Manuscript

Maps

John Speed's atlas

John Speed 17th Century Atlas Makes Auction Debut

18th Century California Map the First to Depict San Francisco Bay

Medieval & Early Modern Maps on View at Yale

Auctions

Lot 146: Charles Dickens, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, 'Prime Pickwick', surmised to be one of a few first editions bound in book form, London, 1837. Estimate $30,000 to $40,000.

Hemingway Autographed Scrapbook, Pancho Villa Letter, and 'Prime Pickwick' at Swann

Previously Unknown John Morgan Medical Manuscript to Auction

Tolkien Letters On His Own Hobbitness and the Creation of 'The Lord of the Rings' at Bonhams

Sponsored

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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

Photographs

The signed FDR and Churchill photograph

Newly Discovered World War II Document Signed by FDR and Winston Churchill

Photographic Evidence of Lartigue’s Daredevil Pet to Auction

ICP Photobook Fest Weekend Preview

Americana

Manuscript lyrics for On the Radio

Donna Summer's Handwritten Lyrics to Auction

Manuscript Fragment from The Scarlet Letter Leads Nathaniel Hawthorne Auction

Bibliophile's Lifetime African-American Collection Heads to Brown University

Exhibitions

Digital Storytelling at the British Library

New Interactive Exhibition Showcases How Technology Is Transforming Storytelling

New Exhibition Looks at Giving Books as Gifts

Leonardo da Vinci's 'Codex Atlanticus' to be Displayed in the U.S.

Book People

George C. Wolfe working with Gregory Hines during a rehearsal for the Broadway production of the musical Jelly's Last Jam by Martha Swope, 1992.

New York Public Library Acquires George C. Wolfe Archive

Rare Book School Shares Summer 2023 Lecture Series

'Book Parts' Now Out in Paperback