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At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, February 13, 227 lots of Fine Books & Ephemera, offering a wide range of material.
The Folio Society has announced that Neil Gaiman will be a guest judge for its annual Folio Book Illustration Award. He will be judging work based on his short story The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains.
A huge collection of Sherlockiana and Arthur Conan Doyle items will go under the hammer next week at Potter & Potter's auction A Study in Sherlock, Part II.
The New-York Historical Society has announced a special installation - New York Before New York: The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam - on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Dutch founding of a colony that would give rise to New York City.
Bonhams will be offering The American Presidency curated sale of Presidential ephemera online from February 11 featuring a reange of interesting documents and letters. Highlights include: * President Kennedy's last day official schedule annotated by with minute-by-minute detail (…
A new exhibition of contemporary artists’ books at the Grolier Club celebrates hundreds of years of communication through real and imagined languages. On view from February 29 through May 11 in the New York club’s second floor gallery, Language, Decipherment, and Translation – from…
Offered here is one of the finest private collections of the earliest printed books in English, certainly one of the largest, most complete private collection of its kind any place in the world. Ranging in date from 1495 to 1599, these 150+ books cover the reigns of several monarchs and topics from…
Closed since 2019, the Emily Dickinson Museum has now completed a multi-year preservation effort at The Evergreens, aimed at improving environmental conditions for objects in its recently documented collection, and reducing energy consumption.
In December 2023, the Charles Dickens Museum bought 120 previously unpublished letters written by Georgina Hogarth, the author's sister-in-law, housekeeper, friend and confidante, who lived with Charles Dickens from 1842, aged 15, until Dickens’s death in 1870.
The American Booksellers Association (ABA) and Columbia University Libraries have announced ABA’s donation of the association’s extensive organizational and bookseller archives to the university to be housed in Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML).
