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The LA Art Book Fair opens this week on May 15 at a new location across…
An installation of works by Frédéric Chopin opens today at the The Morgan Library & Museum.
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The Larry McMurtry Literary Center (LMLC) will open its doors to the public for the first time next month since it was bought last year by the Archer City Writers Workshop.
Book Reviews
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At New England Auctions on Tuesday, February 18, 207 lots of Literature, Children's Prints & Ephemera, including a first issue copy of Joseph Conrad's Notes on Life & Letters (1921) and an uncut sheet of 1776 paper money issued by Pennsylvania, printed on paper containing flakes of mica and…
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The Raab Collection has acquired a rare letter of George Washington that goes to the heart of the American Revolution and the spirit of the colonists to take up their own arms to fight off the oppressors. 
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A historic document signed by President Theodore Roosevelt, crucial to the construction of the Panama Canal, has sold for $49,711 at RR Auction's sale of presidential documents and artifacts.
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Quinn’s Auction Galleries will auction political memorabilia archive of Washington insider and Kennedy family confidante Melody Miller (1945-2022) online on February 18.
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The Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection sale at Christie's has realised a total of £4,627,224 from a variety of lots of books, art, and Dame Edna ephemera.
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A new exhibition commemorating the 700th anniversary of the oldest Spanish cookbook has opened at the University of Valencia in Spain.
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A new exhibition at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art explores the creativity of endpapers which have become an expanded artistic canvas in contemporary children’s publishing. 
Book Fairs
The Ephemera Society of America's flagship event next month will feature more than 10,000 items including advertisements, baseball cards, rare maps, playbills, banknotes, sheet music, luggage tags, and wood engravings.