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Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac will explore the writer’s personal life from…
After its cancellation last year following the Los Angeles fires, the California International…
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A range of rare books and works on paper from The Ricky Jay Collection will go on sale next week.The Forum Auctions online auction on February 27 will feature items from the personal collection of the famous magician, performer, and author  who was also a historian of magic and theatrical…
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The life and work of internationally famous 20th century bookbinder Roger Powell (1896 – 1990) is the focus of a new exhibition which examines how his work transformed the craft using rarely seen fine bindings from private collectors.Bound Together: Modern British Bookbinding which runs through May…
Book Fairs
The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF) returns to Park Avenue Armory in New York City April 3-6.
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The Jon A Lindseth Lewis Carroll collection, one of the world’s largest private Lewis Carroll collections, has been donated to Christ Church Oxford where the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known as Lewis Carroll taught mathematics from 1855 to 1881. 
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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
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors.Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney
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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.