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Two new wooden carved sculptures celebrating East Yorkshire’s influence on J. R. R. Tolkien’s work…
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The 2025 iteration of the international book collecting David Ruggles Prize established to support and encourage young collectors of color is now open for entries.The $1,000 grand prize, $500 second prize, and $250 third prize are awarded annually to applicants whose collections are considered most…
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This week's Rare Book of the Week is a green Apica notebook belonging to singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen including handwritten notes and song lyrics which has just gone under the hammer at Julien's Auctions.
Rare Book School has received a $1 million commitment from bibliophiles, collectors, and RBS supporters Cathy and Glen Miranker to honor its founding director and course instructor Terry Belanger by increasing scholarship access for RBS students.
A new exhibition at the Grolier Club opening next week explores how a growing New York City was portrayed for visitors and residents.On view in the Club’s second floor gallery from March 6 through May 10, Wish You Were Here: Guidebooks, Viewbooks, Photobooks, and Maps of New York City, 1807-…
Princeton University Library will mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby in April with various on- and off-campus programming inspired by the library’s significant F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gatsby-related holdings, including the F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers which were donated…
Rebecca Rego Barry, the former longtime editor of Fine Books & Collections, now director of communications at The Raab Collection, will discuss her latest book at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC on March 13.
Historic England has acquired the Janette Rosing Collection of England, a world-class collection of some of the finest earliest landscape photography of England, taken by leading practitioners of the time.The Rosing Collection includes more than 8,000 original black and white photographs of English…
An interdisciplinary exhibition examining the history, artistry, and impact of children’s literature has opened at The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
The New York Public Library will open an exhibition of a selection of Robert Motherwell’s prints from the 1960s to 1991, alongside annotated books from his private library on March 22.
