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Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Jenna Silver, Processing Coordinator…
Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) Board of Directors has announced that Executive Director…
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More than 100 works by artists who inspired illustrator Maurice Sendak as well as almost 30 original works by Sendak himself will go under the hammer at Christie's.Maurice Sendak, Artist, Collector, Connoisseur includes a live auction on June 10 which would have been Sendak’s 97th birthday, and an…
An original hand-edited manuscript leaf by Henry David Thoreau for his work Cape Cod will be offered by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on April 24, 2025.
Held by Cultural Collections at the University of Leeds, the earliest-known English book about cheese has revealed its fascinating - and sometimes nauseating - contents to the public for the first time after a new transcription has been made available online.
At Swann Galleries on Tuesday, Fine Books, in 360 lots. A copy of the 1971 limited edition of Fernando de Rojas' La Célestine illustrated by Pablo Picasso is expected to lead the sale at $30,000–40,000. William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job (1825) is estimated at $20,000–30,000, as is a…
The Morgan Library & Museum will open A Celebration: Acquisitions in Honor of the Morgan’s Centennial, an exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Pierpont Morgan Library as a public institution on May 9.
Author, artist, and designer Edward Gorey created work that has permeated both our commercial and cultural worlds and a showcase of his 50-year career at Texas A&M University’s Cushing Memorial Library & Archives is running through September 17.
This year's Lyell Lectures will be given by Professor Leah Price at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford and via Zoom. The series will look at how Victorians and their servants interacted with books and their respective reading lives.
A broadside announcing martial law during the 1921 Tulsa Race massacre will be offered in Heritage Auctions' April 25-26 Americana & Political auction.
A new exhibition at the Grolier Club will examine the verbal and visual qualities of experimental poetry presented by publishers of small independent presses.
At Hansons Auctioneers on Tuesday, April 15, The Harry Potter Auction (timed online sale), featuring 23 lots of Potter rarities. A copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince containing a variety of small illustrations and notes from Potter illustrators Thomas Taylor, Cliff Wright, Jason…
