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The library of American-born poet Ruth Fainlight and her late husband the writer Alan Sillitoe…
A new exhibition opening today at the London home of Charles Dickens brings together the women he…
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Hudson, New York — Furthermore grants in publishing, a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund, is pleased to announce the 2021 Alice Award Short List:
The Art of Winold Reiss: An Immigrant Modernist
New-York Historical Society
E. McKnight Kauffer: The Artist in Advertising
Cooper Hewitt,…
New York — Swann Galleries’ seasonal offering of Vintage Posters is at auction Thursday, August 5. The sale will include the customary slate of advertisements and design with exceptional examples of French artists, World War I and World War II propaganda, the Olympic Games, transportation and more.
Boston — A letter written by Founding Father Thomas Jefferson sold for $68,750, according to Boston-based RR Auction.
Amherst, Massachusetts — A lost clown is befriended by a farmer. A frightened mouse is spared by a hungry lion. A beloved dog’s ball is destroyed and replaced. These stories come alive in picture books rich in color and strong in narrative—and all without words. Wordless picture books take center…
Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England — Six books inscribed by Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing, come to auction at Sworders in September, They are being sold by descendants of WJP Burton, the principal of a school sited in the Nightingale family home in…
New York — The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF)—officially sanctioned by Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) and International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and produced by Sanford L. Smith + Associates—is making its return to the Park Avenue…
Berkeley, CA -- Seventy-five choice lots of rare and valuable Americana and cartography drew strong interest to PBA Galleries’ July 8th auction. The sale was highlighted by an amazing record price of $361,500 (including the buyer’s premium) for the first book printed in California, José Figueroa’s…
New York — Swann Galleries will present Focus on Women, a sale dedicated to the important contributions of those in the community who identify as women working in the fields of activism, art and design, community, education, entertainment, health and wellness, science and innovation, sport, and…
London & New York — Following the successes of the ABA Firsts Online fairs and the ABAA Virtual California Bookfair, The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association (ABA) and The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA) have joined forces to create The Transatlantic Book Fair, which will…
Falls Church, VA – On Thursday, July 8, Quinn’s Auction Galleries in northern Virginia will host an outstanding 317-lot auction of rare and signed books, antique maps, prints and autographs. Selections include works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, and Dutch engraver/cartographer…
