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Books and letters associated with J.R.R. Tolkien's friendship with fan Eileen Elgar come to the…
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Memories of the Fab Four come to Sworders this month. The Design sale on January 17 includes autographs of all four members of The Beatles taken in January 1965 at the Hammersmith Odeon.
The vendor is the nephew of the writer and broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy and his wife the ballerina Moira Shearer…
The Grolier Club in New York City - America’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles - will celebrate visionary contemporary American artists who revolutionized and re-energized the creative legacy of paper arts. Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s…
RR Auction's first sale of 2023 brings the 'golden age' of the American gangster to the forefront, featuring remarkable items chronicling the lives and times of notorious figures like Al Capone, John Dillinger, Bonnie Parker, and Clyde Barrow.
Thanks to a Museums for America Grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), seven Clemens-original objects in The Mark Twain House & Museum’s collection have undergone professional conservation treatment at the Williamstown Art Conservation and Preservation Center.…
Christie's Books & Manuscripts Department is pleased to present a fine selection of material highlighting both important science and Americana.
Join us for the 2023 D. F. McKenzie Memorial Lecture, by Professor Tom Mole, author of the best-selling publication The Secret Life of Books. As new media radically changes our experience of books, this illustrated lecture draws on a wide range of examples to explore all the things we do with books…
One hundred years after his death, a rare book signed by Polar adventurer and hero Ernest Shackleton has been unearthed by an intrepid librarian in the unfathomed depths of the University of London’s Senate House Library.
The much-anticipated exhibition, 'Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory', is scheduled to open on February 22, 2023, in Princeston University Library's Firestone Library’s Milberg Gallery. Conceived by Autumn Womack, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English, the exhibition is a…
The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing SHARP Book History Book Prize (formerly the DeLong Book History Book Prize) annually awards a $1,000 prize to the author of the best book on any aspect of the creation, dissemination, or uses of script or print published in the…
‘For Immediate Release: The Art of the Press Release’ showcases a selection of press releases and promo-texts from fourteen iconic fashion practitioners over time, at the International Library of Fashion Research, Oslo.
