The winner of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize is Darby Ronning for The Alldera…
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Some of cinema's rarest artwork from The Blue Angel and Casablanca to 2001: A Space Odyssey and Apocalypse Now will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions later this month.
Nuevo descubrimiento del gran rio de las Amazonas (estimate: €80,000 - €120,000) and Hypnerotomachia poliphili (estimate: €30,000 - €50,000) lead The Classics sale at Bonhams in Paris on April 8.
The Most Formidable Weapon Against Errors: The Sid Lapidus ’59 Collection & the Age of Reason now running until June 8 at Princeton University Library focuses on the collecting achievements of Sid Lapidus, Class of 1959.
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.
