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The long-standing friendship between poet Langston Hughes and pioneer photographer Griffith J. Davis is at the centre of the new exhibition The Ways of Langston Hughes: Griff Davis and Black Artists in the Making at the Schomburg Center, a research division of The New York Public Library.
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors.Indigenous North American Type by Kevin KingA fascinating celebration of the typography of the Indigenous languages of North America based on ongoing collaboration with local language communities.…
The National Library of Ireland has announced the acquisition of The O’Brien Press Collection and its archive which includes first edition titles from Marita Conlon-McKenna, Éamonn McThomáis, Eoin Colfer, Siobhán Parkinson, Polly Devlin, Frank McGuinness and William Trevor.
The Raab Collection has announced that it has acquired the original autopsy report and unpublished medical notes from the assassination of President William McKinley belonging to Dr. Herman Matzinger, who conducted McKinley’s autopsy.
The third and final library of the late Robin de Beaumont, former President of The Private Libraries Association, comes to Bonhams next week.A benefactor to the British Museum, "Robin de Beaumont (1926-2023) was a leading expert in Victorian decorative bindings and his Chelsea library was described…
An extraordinary selection of rarities from one of the world’s most highly regarded single-author collections, the Winston S. Churchill Collection of Steve Forbes, is on sale at The Winter Show 2024, taking place at The Armoury New York.Offered by London-based rare book dealer Peter Harrington, the…
![STAMP ACT CRISIS [THE SONS OF LIBERTY – LAMB, John (?) (1735 ‐1800).] Autograph document signed (“Vox Populi”), [New York, October 23‐24 , 1765]. One page, 156 x 192mm., on laid paper. Estimate: $4,000,000-6,000,000](/sites/default/files/styles/mobile_listed_teaser_thumb_768x735_/public/media-images/2024-01/christies-stamp-act-placard-january-24.jpg?h=5f8dda7f&itok=13Z3RDJ6)
The top lot of the Christie’s Fine Printed and Manuscript Americana sale, The Stamp Act Defiance Placard, has been sold for $4,527,000.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Cate Barton, one of the honorable mentions in the 2023 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Contest for women collectors aged 30 or younger.Where are you from / where do you live?
Bibliophiles, literary enthusiasts, and scholars are gearing up for the much-anticipated Bibliography Week 2024, a week-long celebration of literary heritage, scheduled to take place this year January 22 - 27.
Former Fine Books editor Rebecca Rego Barry is preparing to go on the road in anticipation of the publication of her new book The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells: Investigations into a Forgotten Mystery Author next month.It is the first biography of one of the “lost ladies” of detective fiction who…
