West Side Book Shop

113 West Liberty

Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Open since 1975. Polar exploration, literary first editions, children's books, photography.

Visual Art

Boston Athenæum Henry Long Room

Boston Athenæum Receives $75,000 to Reinstall Special Collections

The Carle Presents: Ashley Bryan in Song

Rediscovered 16th-Century Drawing at Christopher Bishop Fine Art

Maps

Dr. John Snow used this map to further demonstrate that cholera was not caused by foul city air but by something in the water.

Maps in the Time of Cholera

British Library Makes 40,000 Historical Maps Available Online

The Legendary Vladi Collection of Historical Maps at Guernsey’s

Americana

Detective Comics No. 140

Comics & Comic Art Hits World-Record $22.4 Million at Heritage Auctions

First Selection of "Promise" Comics at Heritage Auctions Makes $7 Million

“Oath of a Freeman” Forgery Acquired for the Grolier Club

Photographs

Operating an automatic press. Boston Index Card Co., 113 Purchase Street. Lewis W. Hine, 1917

On View: Photographer and Social Reformer Lewis Hine

Author Lisa See Gives Huntington Rare Photos of LA’s Original Chinatown

Victorian Photo Collection Sells for $2 Million

Auctions

Montblanc Rotary Centennial Artisan Edition fountain pen

Fine Pens at PBA Galleries

Major Collection of Edward Curtis Photography at Bonhams

Pulp Fiction at Bonhams Book Sale

Rare Books

Nyan Cat

The 411 on NFTs for Bibliophiles

Northampton Antiquarian Book, Ephemera, and Book Arts Fair Slated for December

Jonkers Presents ‘From the Author’ Catalogue of Rare Books & Manuscripts

Book People

Image of Andrew Lenoir

Bright Young Booksellers: Andrew Lenoir

Mrs. Gaskell’s Bedroom Gets a Makeover

Video Fridays: Kevin Mac Donnell’s Mark Twain Collection

Sponsored

woman holding books

The Catawiki Books Department Expands Its Reach

‘Democratized’ Book, Map, and Manuscript Auctions Promise Finds in All Price Ranges

Potter & Potter to Auction Science, Americana, and more at October Sale

Exhibitions

The Night-Blooming Cereus illustration

Rare Botany Books and Specimens on Exhibit

Miles Hyman's Narrative Images on View in NYC

Snowman Illustrator Raymond Briggs Retrospective Opens

Book Arts

Kelmscott Chaucer illustration

Kelmscott Day, June 26, Celebrates the Beauty of the Book

Funding the First Fine Press Edition of Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon

Two Minnesota Book Artists Win $25,000 Fellowships