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In 18th century Paris the Palais Royal housed booksellers in the galleries under the arcades and a…
168 years after London’s 'Great Stink' which forced the government to pass a law to build the sewer…
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To protest widespread book bans in the U.S., Margaret Atwood has collaborated with her publishers on a fireproof edition of her most famous—and often banned—novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, first published in 1985.
Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Katherine Litwin, library director at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago.
Philadelphia — Every year, the world celebrates Bloomsday on June 16, the day that James Joyce’s Ulysses is set in 1904. Nowhere celebrates quite like The Rosenbach Museum and Library, home of Joyce’s manuscript. Ulysses was published 100 years ago in 1922, and after two years, the in-person…
Asheville, NC — Biblio.com, one of the largest ecommerce sites for used and rare books, recently announced plans for their Biblio.live virtual book fair. Set to launch on June 2nd, the book fair will be an opportunity for rare booksellers around the globe to connect with Biblios’ vast audience of…
The desk on which Dame Hilary Mantel wrote her multi-award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy will be auctioned in London next month to benefit local literacy projects.
"It has served me well,” Mantel said, “and has a great record of turning out prize winners." The pine desk was a bespoke commission for…
Boston — Incredible handwritten lyrics by Bob Dylan for his song, "All Along the Watchtower," sold for $60,500, according to Boston-based RR Auction.
The lyrics on one page, written in black ink and signed neatly at the conclusion, "Bob Dylan, 2013," are accompanied by a 2014 letter of…
Sotheby's online sale of Travel, Atlases, Maps and Photographs ends on Tuesday, May 24. The 111 lots include a large collection of more than 4,000 photographs mostly of Persian portraits and views taken between the 1860s and the 1920s.
Berkeley, CA – PBA Galleries announces an auction of Rare Books & Manuscripts on June 2nd, 2022. The sale comprises a selection of over 200 lots of rare and significant books, with manuscript material, dating from the fourteenth through twentieth centuries.
New York – The Morgan Library & Museum presents J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library: Building the Bookman’s Paradise, on view June 10 through September 18, 2022. This exhibition traces the design, construction, and early life of one of the finest examples of Neoclassical architecture in the United…
American illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935) is (back) in the spotlight, with one of her original artworks heading to auction next week. The Green Door, a mixed media on pressed paperboard, was created as part of a series of six illustrations to accompany a story called “The Child in the…
