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A century after Sir James Roberts gifted Haworth Parsonage to the Brontë Society it has announced…
Of the 138 lots covering the history of science at PBA Galleries' August 28 auction are 18 related…
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Crafting the Ballets Russes will draw on the Robert Lehman private collection of autograph manuscripts of Western music on deposit at The Morgan Library & Museum, in particular early 20th century ballet materials.
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BIBLIO, the independent marketplace for antiquarian and rare books, has announced the public launch of its new The Auction & Book Sales Archive (ABSA).
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Gallerist Annina Nosei has donated the complete run of catalogues of Annina Nosei Gallery, 1986 to 2005, to Magazzino Italian Art's Germano Celant Research Center. Taken together, the catalogues document a significant period in recent art history.  
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A major National Lottery Heritage Fund grant will help finance the opening of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration on a heritage site in London's Clerkenwell. The grant brings the total funding secured to acquire and develop the site to £11.5 million, with work due to begin this autumn.
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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has made an award of $25,000 to San Francisco Center for the Book for its forthcoming exhibition David Anthony King: Book Projects and Zines, 1977 - 2019.  
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Handwritten notes and doodles on stationery from Houston's Rice Hotel by President John F. Kennedy from November 21, 1963, the night before his assassination, have sold for $34,504 at RR Auction.
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The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America has announced the first season of the ABAA Diversity Initiative, a guided discovery program for those historically underrepresented among workers in the trade, black, indigenous, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community. Designed to run…
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The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) is inviting booksellers, collectors, librarians, and anybody handling antiquarian material to attend its symposium Libraries, Booksellers and Collectors discuss Provenance, Restitution and the Conservation of our Written Heritage at Paris'…
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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has announced a new multiyear agreement with Ancestry to digitize, index, and publish tens of millions of historical United States records, previously unavailable online. 
Book Fairs
Firsts London 2024, the rare book fair at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea, London, runs May 16 - 19 with 'The Art of the Book' as the theme for this year.The Fair will gather more than 100 international dealers who will be bringing items including bejewelled bindings, pop-up books, Japanese…