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New York-based rare book antiquarian Richard C. Ramer (1942-2026) has died after running his…
Sotheby’s in New York has sold the rare Rothschild Vienna Mahzor Hebrew prayerbook for $6…
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After nearly five decades in New Haven the William Reese Company officially opens at its new home in New York City today.The firm’s new home is an 8th floor gallery and office space at 14 East 60th Street in the former Hotel Fourteen, immediately adjacent to what used to be the Copacabana Club. The…
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Howard Kordansky, winner of the 2024 ABA National Book Collecting Prize and the Anthony Davis Student Book Collecting PrizeWhere are you from / where do you live?I grew up in Worcestershire, England but I now live in central London.What do you…
An original example of the bookcases at Lambeth Palace Library is now available to buy after nearly 200 years service.Measuring nearly 3m high and 12m long, the pine 12-bay wall-mounted bookcase with adjustable shelves was designed by Edward Blore around 1830, and then later reformatted c.1945. It…
Rare Book School at the University of Virginia has now made available recordings of talks from its Summer 2025 Lecture Series. A Parallel History of Books and Blooks with Mindell Dubansky, Conservator, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of ArtWatch on YouTubeListen on SoundCloud
The Strand Magazine today releases in its issue 76 the previously unpublished Raymond Chandler manuscript Nightmare that has remained unseen for decades.
The Huntington will become the permanent home of the L.A. Louver Archive & Library which will preserve more than five decades of documentation related to Southern California contemporary art and cultural history. “The L.A. Louver Archive & Library expands our ability to tell the story…
A first edition of The Lord of the Rings signed by JRR Tolkien in Elvish Tengwar script will go under the hammer at Forum Auctions' Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper sale on September 25.
Christie's will hold its Photographs online sale from September 25 through October 10 featuring items such as rare vintage prints by Edward Weston, Tina Modotti and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, post-war photographs by Diane Arbus, Peter Beard, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, and contemporary highlights by…
Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on:
A tiny Qur’an displayed in a dolls’ house for many years will go under the hammer at at Hansons Auctioneers on September 27 with an estimate of £2,000-£3,000.An octagonal book with 16 lines of text per page - some encased in a gold border - over 300 pages dates from the late 18th to early 19th…
