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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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The NYPL has acquired the archive of Oliver Sacks which showcases the life and career of the author and perhaps most important medical humanist of the 20th century.
The Bloomsbury group circle of writers, intellectuals, and artists is the focus of new collaboration between Sotheby's and Charleston, the creatives' rural retreat in Sussex.Sotheby’s will host Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury to Charleston, a private selling and loan exhibition on view November…
Elizabeth Gaskell’s House is celebrating a decade since one of Manchester’s most important historic cultural venues was saved from dereliction with a new exhibition.Running until June 2025, The story of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House from dereliction to delight explores the building’s restoration and…
Going under the hammer later this month will be the first tranche of The Christine Farrell Complete DC Collection, an auction featuring nearly 500 comic books, including 1940’s Double Action Comics No. 2, of which only seven copies have survived.
The new exhibition of artists’ books at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA) on Bainbridge Island, WA, focuses on the limitations and injustices associated with borders and identity documents.
Rare Book School (RBS) at the University of Virginia has received a $3.1m donation to endow a full-time curatorial chair for the School’s teaching collection and exhibitions program. It represents the largest single gift in Rare Book School’s 41-year history.
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art has announced the first exhibition about the transformative power of Free to Be… You and Me, a cultural force that inspired generations of children and families.
The first library at London's Guildhall was founded by money bequeathed by former Lord Mayor of the City of London Richard 'Dick' Whittington who gained a reputation as an astute medieval merchant, politician, and philanthropist.
What is believed to be the first American photograph of a romantically posed interracial couple will go under the hammer at Freeman’s | Hindman on October 26.
This week's Rare Book of the Week is today's launch offering from Macmillan's new Fablelistik Editions, a limited and fine press books publisher. In its first collection, Fablelistik is offering three editions of Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, all of which will include…
