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Box cover of a 19th century authors card game (Parker Brothers, 1896) from the RBS teaching collections

Rare Book School’s Author Card Games Collection on Display For First Time

Oliver Bayliss on Graham Greene’s Dracula, Private Members’ Clubs, and New Ideas for the Rare Book Trade

Villagers on Their Way to Church from Book of Hours, about 1550. Simon Bening (Flemish, about 1483 – 1561). Tempera colors and gold paint.

Getty Manuscripts Exhibition Focuses on Travel in the Middle Ages

The Birds of Great Britain: Rare Book of the Week

From the Pages of Fine Books & Collections

Lewis Carroll: A Rare and Wondrous Rabbit Hole

In an act of remarkable generosity, the bibliophile and

How Poisonous Books Are Being Detected

In 1906, a young French woman named Clothilde Coulaux made a lushly illuminated...

Collector Nicholas Royle Retraces the Journeys of His Books

Book collector Nicholas Royle—whose trilogy on the subject will be complete when...

Fine Books News

a pencil manufactured by J. Thoreau & Co

Thoreau Pencil and Complete Modern Library Lead Final Strutz Library Auction

The 266-volume complete Modern Library and a Thoreau & Co pencil are among the lots in the third and final Heritage Auctions sale…

Cat playing the organ, detail from late 15th-century prayer book, illuminated by followers of Willem Vrelant of Bruges

Cats in Medieval Manuscripts Feature in New Baltimore Exhibition

The first of three animal-themed exhibitions at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore highlights the portrayal of cats in the margins of…

Qurʾan Manuscript, dated AH 1260/1844-45, signed by Mir ʿAbd al-Karim Muhammad Sadiq al-Husayni al-Yazdi, Qajar Iran, ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Qurʾan Manuscript Masterpieces on Display in Houston

The Book of Mormon: Rare Book of the Week

An album of 15 original landscape and drawings of figures from the Chinese School (19th century)

Descent of Man, Sontag Polaroid, and Chinese Album: The Week in Rare Books

The only lyric sketch for 'Over the Rainbow' known to exist

Earliest Over the Rainbow Lyrics To Go On Display

New York Public Library Announces Major Exhibition for America's 250th Celebrations

Select Rarities: Exceptional Books & Manuscripts

Illuminated Manuscripts History, Debut Poetry, and Gatsby Cook Book: August Books Roundup

Rare Book School’s Author Card Games Collection on Display For First Time

Galton and Simpson Comedy Archive Acquired by University of York

Miniature Books: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Unseen Sketches of Charles Dickens in Play Rehearsals Go On Display For First Time

Scottish Cricket Archive Donated to the National Library of Scotland

Brontë Parsonage Museum Acquires New Historic Buildings

Byrne's Euclid, Einstein Offprints, and Publishers' Bindings to Auction

Book Dealer: Children's Books

Vanessa Parker, Rare Books Ireland

The Point House, Rosmindle , Westport

IRELAND, Mayo F28YK29

Ireland

00353872339221

The most westerly antiques and book store in Europe, large range of antiquarian, (more)

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

Carpetbagger Books

110 S Johnson St Ste 207

Woodstock, IL 60098

(815) 382-4303

Specializing in modern first editions of literature, science fiction, and mystery/ (more)

Book Dealer: Book Arts

Gramp's Attic Books

8304 Main St.

Ellicott City, MD 21043

(410) 750-9235

Ships and Sea, Medicine, Medical History, Children's, Printing, Book Arts, (more)

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

Captain's Book Shoppe LLC

1570 S. 1st Ave, Suite H

Iowa City, IA 52240-4768

(319) 351-3166

Book Arts

Rare Book School’s Author Card Games Collection on Display For First Time

New AI Tool Could Help Reconstruct Missing Ancient Inscriptions

Mark Gatiss Headlines as Antiquarian Bookseller in New TV Crime Drama 'Bookish'

Auctions

Thoreau Pencil and Complete Modern Library Lead Final Strutz Library Auction

The Book of Mormon: Rare Book of the Week

Select Rarities: Exceptional Books & Manuscripts

Book People

The First Book: Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in America by Jesse Zuba

Illuminated Manuscripts History, Debut Poetry, and Gatsby Cook Book: August Books Roundup

Brontë Parsonage Museum Acquires New Historic Buildings

Oliver Bayliss on Graham Greene’s ‘Dracula’, Private Members’ Clubs, and New Ideas for the Rare Book Trade

Visual Art

Charles Dickens (centre) during rehearsals for his own play, Mr Nightingale’s Diary performed at Tavistock House in 1855. On the left is Mark Lemon, editor of Punch magazine, on the right is either Wilkie Collins or illustrator Frank Stone.

Unseen Sketches of Charles Dickens in Play Rehearsals Go On Display For First Time

New Exhibition Focuses on 19th century Cartoons Satirizing Women's Fashion

Propaganda and Travel Vintage Posters: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Rare Books

Descent of Man, Sontag Polaroid, and Chinese Album: The Week in Rare Books

Earliest 'Over the Rainbow' Lyrics To Go On Display

Galton and Simpson Comedy Archive Acquired by University of York

Maps

F. E. Gallup. Gallup's Map of Texas, Showing Oil and Gas Fields, Pipe Lines and Refineries

Maps of Texas: Five Rare Books for Collectors

The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi’s ‘A Complete Map of All Under Heaven’

Maps & Atlases: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Exhibitions

Cats in Medieval Manuscripts Feature in New Baltimore Exhibition

Qurʾan Manuscript Masterpieces on Display in Houston

New York Public Library Announces Major Exhibition for America's 250th Celebrations

Photographs

Bill Cunningham, Municipal Building, built 1914

Photographer Bill Cunningham’s Archive Acquired by The New York Historical

Marilyn Monroe’s Signed Passport Photograph Sold for $21,655

Victorian Photobook Bought at US Yard Sale to Auction with $67,000 Estimate

Americana

FBI Returns Stolen Conquistador Manuscript to Mexico

Charles Bukowski, Beats and The Counterculture at PBA Galleries

Hemingway Days Celebration in Key West

Select Rarities: Exceptional Books & Manuscripts

Rare Book School’s Author Card Games Collection on Display For First Time

Oliver Bayliss on Graham Greene’s Dracula, Private Members’ Clubs, and New Ideas for the Rare Book Trade

Getty Manuscripts Exhibition Focuses on Travel in the Middle Ages

The Birds of Great Britain: Rare Book of the Week

Lewis Carroll: A Rare and Wondrous Rabbit Hole

How Poisonous Books Are Being Detected

Collector Nicholas Royle Retraces the Journeys of His Books

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