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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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Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors.Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books by Reid Byers
The Stuttgart Rare Book Fair, Germany's international fair for valuable books, autographs, illustrated works and graphic art, will be held at the Württembergischer Kunstverein January 24 - 26, organised by the German Association of Antiquarian Booksellers.
At Kedem Auctions on Tuesday, January 21, Important Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection, in 200 lots. A large volume of manuscript rulings and responses by Moroccan rabbis of the eighteenth century, including a letter written by the Or HaChaim (c.1696–1743)…
This week's Rare Book of the Week is White Bull's ledger book dating back to the late 19th and early 20th century. Written and drawn by White Bull, the nephew of Sitting Bull and who claimed to have killed General George Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, it records winter…
A new exhibition at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art honors the work of artist Raúl Colón whose signature style of textured watercolor and colored pencil paintings are showcased in more than 50 books.
Latest figures from the online resource thebookguide which aims to list all the secondhand bookshops in the UK and the Republic of Ireland suggests secondhand bookselling has witnessed an impressive increase over the last 12 months.According to its latest figures, at the end of 2024 there were 1,…
A Century of The New Yorker will showcase the history of The New Yorker from its launch in 1925 to the present day and feature founding documents, rare manuscripts, photographs, and cover and cartoon art drawn from the Library’s holdings.The exhibition - opening February 22 and running through…
Organizers of next month's rare book fair at the Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture are working to accommodate booksellers displaced by the cancelation of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA) book fair in Pasadena.
A handwritten manuscript of the Declaration of Independence comes to auction next week at Christie's after initially being bought at a library sale.Discovered by a collector who purchased an incomplete set of 18th century Laws of New York at the sale, the plain book worth…
Tickets are now available to see three rare Magna Cartas at Durham Cathedral.From July 11 through November 2 visitors will be able to see the rare documents as part of a new exhibition, Magna Carta and the North.
