September 2, 2010 | Jonathan Shipley

The Ten Best Bookstores in America

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Pictured above: Powell's City of Books in Portland, Oregon.

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Bookstores

Rare Books

Batman #1

Batman No. 1 and Superman No. 1 Comics Sell for $13m Total

Pacific Voyages: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Hemingway Letters: Five Rare Letters for Collectors

Auctions

The Rothschild Vienna Mahzor, 1415 Prayers for the Morning Services of Rosh Hashana

Rothschild Vienna Mahzor 15th Century Hebrew Prayerbook Sold for $6.4m

Groundbreaking Vega Expedition Polar Archive to Auction

Founding Fathers Manuscripts Lead Freeman’s Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Visual Art

America's Answer! Production (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942)

War Posters: Five Rare Posters for Collectors

Yuletide at Winterthur Offers Literature-Inspired Festive Experiences

Original Works by Charlie Mackesy to Auction

Maps

WWII Operation Bigot map

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Photographs

Jaeden Yoshikawa

Collector Jaeden Yoshikawa on Real Photo Post Cards and Lovers' Locations

New Exhibition Celebrates Photography in Children's Books

New York Melting Pot Photographs Go On Display

Book People

Richard C Ramer

Rare Book Community Mourns Death of Richard C. Ramer

Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize Honorable Mention Amalia V on Collecting Sex

New Newberry Library $4m Grant Will Expand Access to Indigenous Studies Collections

Americana

A collection of American railroad and steamer passes, 1856 – 1936

Railroadiana Ephemera: Five Rare Items for Collectors

Steve Jobs Signed Apple Check No. 1 Sold for $2.4m at Auction

George Washington Pre-Inauguration Letter Headlines Freeman’s Americana Auction

Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Book Arts

Antony Gormley's Tree for Waiting for Godot on an upland bog in the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark Co. Fermanagh at the July 2019 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Exhibitions

A section of the errata slip for James Joyce’s Ulysses

Printing Errors Celebrated in Upcoming Yale Library Exhibition

Complete and Gilded Book of the Dead Goes on View for First Time

Jack Kerouac's Origins Explored In New Grolier Exhibition