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The library of American-born poet Ruth Fainlight and her late husband the writer Alan Sillitoe…
A new exhibition opening today at the London home of Charles Dickens brings together the women he…
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Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them is a rollicking visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. It's my third nonfiction book, involved a lot of research and a bit of book collecting, and came out in…
Bonhams will host an online auction Airborne: A Fundraising Sale for the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration running April 21-29 April.
A new exhibition at the Library of Congress seeks to reveal the real George Washington and King George III of Britain behind the myths.George III and Washington never met but The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution brings them together for the first time through their letters,…
A new exhibition pays homage to Emily Dickinson’s botanical devotion using a plant-and light-based photographic process invented during her era.
Two exhibitions of work by artist Karen Wirth will open on April 12 at Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Building/Books | Karen Wirth: A Retrospective Exhibition and Archabet: An Architectural Abecedarium.
Highlights of the autographs portion of the April 10 Autographs & Subculture auction at Swann Galleries include: * Catherine II, Empress of Russia, military commission on vellum, signed, appointing a captain of artillery, 1774 (estimate $1,000-$2,000)* Bob Dylan's high school…
Tennants Auctioneers’ Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale tomorrow (April 9) will include 43 lots that are the property of Sir Brooke Boothby removed from Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan. The Fonmon Library comprised three family collections, firstly, that of the Seys family primarily collected by Evan…
At Ader on Tuesday, April 8, 117 lots of Psychedelic Posters, most of which are estimated in the mid-three-figures: the catalog makes for a good browse! Bonhams New York sells 228 lots of Fine Books & Manuscripts on Tuesday, including three lots all sharing the top estimate of $80,000–120,000:…
This week's Rare Book of the Week, the Flushing Remonstrance, one of the earliest exercises of religious liberty in New York, is only on view for a very limited period.
The ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF) has returned to the Park Avenue Armory for its 65th edition in New York City to set various new records.
