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The Chelsea Rare Book Fair returns to the Chelsea Old Town Hall on the Kings Road in London on…
A signed typed letter by J.R.R. Tolkien to a fan about the language in his recently published The…
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A rare 1493 first edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle has been sold for $65,885 at Nate D. Sanders Auctions. It received six bids.The Nuremberg Chronicle, authored by Hartmann Schedel, stands as the unparalleled 15th century illustrated history of the world, published by Anton Koberger on July 12,…
Quentin Blake has illustrated some of the most recognisible book characters over his 70 year career and 300+ titles. He has now returned to a dozen of them and redrawn them for a special online auction at Bonhams to support the new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration.
As part of its 25th anniversary celebration, the board of directors of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) will sponsor a virtual fair featuring rare and collectible books, rare maps and ephemera May 2-4.The fair will be a collaboration between the IOBA and veteran book fair…
Highlights from Firsts Online, the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association's virtual book fair running through March 3:* Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson, Ernest Benn, London, 1951. The first UK printing in scarce wrapper by Jansson of the second book in the series. Available from Ashton Rare Books.
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Ulises Carrión Bogard, one of the most influential of all modern artists engaged in exploring the book form, is celebrated in the new exhibition Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond at Princeton University Library (PUL) running through June 13.
Hundreds of posters and ephemera which form the Poems on the Underground archive, including letters from leading poets, has been donated to Cambridge University Library.
A rare handwritten manuscript leaf from Henry David Thoreau's Walden will go under the hammer at RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction featuring over 650 items.
The Yiddish Book Center has announced that Aaron Lansky, the organization’s founder and MacArthur Foundation 'Genius Grant' winner, will retire from his role as president in June 2025. Susan Bronson, the Center’s long-time executive director, will assume the position of president. Following…
Submissions for the eighth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, a cash award of $1000 for an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a young woman, are now open.
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Sorrel Dunn of James Arsenault & Company in Maine.How did you get started in rare books?
