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Art belonging to novelist Jilly Cooper will come to auction at Christie's tomorrow in its Modern…
The prestigious annual 2026 Sandars Lectures series will be given this year by Professor Marina…
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Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Javier Ortega of Michael R. Thompson Rare Books in Los Angeles:How did you get started in rare books?
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.
A rare lead-lined naval signal book from the First World War has been bought by The National Museum for the Royal Navy after being listed in an Oxfam bookshop in Bath, England.
Swann Galleries' May 23 Focus on Women sale includes books, prints, original art, photographs, ephemera related to suffrage and feminism, and archives produced by women from the 16th to the 21st century.
BIBLIO, the independent marketplace for antiquarian and rare books, has announced the public launch of its new The Auction & Book Sales Archive (ABSA).
At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, May 21, 230 lots of Fine Books & Ephemera, including a set of the 1902 Book-Lover's Camden Edition of Whitman's works, a volume containing four nineteenth-century book auction catalogs, and a number of group lots, including some children's books and some…
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.
The napkin agreement which paved the way to bring the teenage Lionel Messi to FC Barcelona has been sold at Bonhams for £762,400 ($968,300).The original napkin - measuring 16.5 x 16.5cm - with the agreement written in blue ink was offered in a single lot online auction on behalf of Argentine agent…
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.
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.
