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The fourth annual David Ruggles Prize to support and encourage international young book collectors…
The Carle will open a new exhibition later this month exploring Eric Carle’s career through the…
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Collectors of Australiana at the Melbourne Book Fair next week will be offered significant first editions of historical works, including eyewitness accounts featuring finely detailed and hand-coloured maps, journey logs, and surveys from the First Fleet era from Peter Harrington. The fair,…
In this guest post for Fine Books, Umberto La Rocca writes about setting up The McCarthyist, a new website about Cormac McCarthy and his work
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Lise-Michelle Childers of Native Books in Hawaiʻi.How did you get started in rare books?
Sutton House, a 500-year-old property in London's Hackney owned by the National Trust, was built for one of Henry VIII’s statesmen and over its lifetime it was home to different families and used for different purposes including a girls’ school in the 17th century.
Ending on Tuesday, July 16, the Freeman's | Hindman Summer Reading sale, in 230 lots. A first issue copy of Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) in a first state dust jacket is expected to sell for $1,200–1,800, while a copy of the second American (and first revised) edition of Ernest Hemingway's In…
Quaritch is now offering The Little Holland House Album … with an Introduction & Notes by John Christian, published for the Roxburghe Club.
The Bath Book Fair, in conjunction with the ABA, will be held at a new venue, Bath Pavilion, North Parade Road, Bathwick, Bath, July 26 - 27. Highlights include: * IN WINTER & IN SUMMER YOU CAN BE SURE OF SHELL
A significant autograph letter signed by Sigmund Freud, in which he declares his pacifist ideals while expressing skepticism about the effectiveness of non-violence, has sold for $31,625 at RR Auction.
Goldin's July Pop Culture Elite Auction features more than 100 comic books including various first appearance issues, with many graded CGC 9.6 and above. Highlights include: * * the beginning of the Silver Age of Comics with the origin and first appearance of Flash in Showcase #4,…
Details are emerging about the debut of Firsts Hong Kong, a new book fair which will be held for the first time December 6 -8 this year. Organisers say that Firsts Hong Kong will bring the former China in Print fair under the Firsts umbrella and will be held in the Hong Kong Maritime Museum at…
