Three auctions I'll be watching this week:
Only four copies of the first edition of Thomas Paine's morale-boosting pamphlet, The American Crisis ("These are the times which try men's souls...") were known to survive, but a
Sure, we all know Hay-on-Wye, but how many other book towns can you name? How about forty-four more?
Five auctions to watch this week, leading off with a Wednesday, March 21 sale of Fine Books and Manuscripts at Bonhams London.
Nobody ever says "men artists." Females in the creative arts, however, are often described as women painters, women cartoonists, or women illustrators.
Opening this weekend at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is an exhibition titled Beyond Words: Boo
