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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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John Steinbeck's personal copies of Webster's Dictionary and of Roget's Thesaurus come to auction this week at Christie's in its online Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana sale ending January 28.
Back in 2016 Mindell Dubansky curated a marvellous exhibition at the Grolier Club about things that looked like books but were not, objects she christened 'blooks'. If you missed it, then your luck is in because running now at the Center for Book Arts in New York City is a new show dedicated to…
Highlights from James Cummins Bookseller's latest catalogue Once Upon a Time including:The Lord Fish by Walter De la Mare, illustrated by Rex Whistler, London: Faber & Faber, 1933
Amy Stewart is the New York Times bestselling author of The Drunken Botanist, Wicked Plants and most recently The Tree Collectors which includes a look at former US poet laureate W. S. Merwin who planted a tree almost every day for more than three decades. Nate Pedersen talked to her about her work…
The 2022 and 2023 McKnight Book Artist Fellowship Exhibition opens on January 21 at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.
More than 70 exhibitors will showcase a range of rare books, ephemera, art, and design at The Winter Show 2025.Among those at the show running January 24 though February 2 will be Peter Harrington Rare Books. Among its offerings are:
The Book of the Marvels of the World, an illustrated guide to the globe filled with oddities, curiosities, and wonders for the medieval armchair traveler will go on display at The Morgan Library & Museum tomorrow.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Amelia Soth, an honorable mention in the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Contest for women collectors aged 30 and younger.Where are you from / where do you live?
The New York Public Library has acquired the archive of Jhumpa Lahiri, including papers charting Lahiri’s rise in the literary world from her Pulitzer Prize-winning debut story collection The Interpreter of Maladies to her recent translation work.
