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6d ago
A new exhibition will be the first to celebrate the animals that found their way into the books and homes of Charles Dickens, throwing the spotlight on to the dogs, ravens, goldfinches and cats who shared houseroom with the Dickens family, as well as Dickens’s horses ..read more
The Fine Books
6d ago
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig with a special display featuring his 1966 Honda Super Hawk motorcycle. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ..read more
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6d ago
Books written by and inscribed to the late former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright will go under the hammer next month at Freeman’s | Hindman.The private collection will be sold across a sequence of live and online sales including her distinctive pins and the fine and decorative arts ..read more
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Vivian Maier's photographs only caught the world's attention several years after her death when storage locker sales in Chicago unearthed thousands of her photos and negatives. On May 2, Heritage Auctions will present a selection of her photographs that she printed herself or had printed in her ..read more
Bookseller Maggie Mazzullo on Roxburghe Club Ephemera, The Long Lost Friend, and Airships in Fiction
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6d ago
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Maggie Mazzullo, proprietor of M Mazzulloo Bookseller in Colorado.How did you get started in rare books ..read more
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6d ago
Emulating Books: Book Objects from the Lynn and Bruce Heckman Gift is a fascinating new exhibition ..read more
The Fine Books
2w ago
Printed Matter's 2024 NY Art Book Fair will run April 25–28 celebrating contemporary artists’ books and the medium’s history. The fair will feature a wide range of artists and collectives, small presses, institutions, galleries, antiquarian booksellers, and distributors ..read more
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A March 10, 1836 document transmitting land to his brother Charles Lockhart, dated just four days after the fall of the Alamo. Lockhart had left the garrison to procure supplies and was in Gonzales when the Mexican forces overran and killed all of the defenders ..read more
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2w ago
Robert Giroux’s personal copy circa 1951 of the famous scroll of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is among the highlights from Peter Harrington at this year's New York International Antiquarian Book Fair running until April 7 ..read more
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2w ago
This June, a cast of some of the UK’s finest actors will feature in a new, all-female, film interpretation of James Joyce's Ulysses. ..read more