The Grolier Club of New York is planning one of its landmark "One Hundred" exhibitions, this time with its eye on children's literature.
Either there's a stunned silence in the book world, or word hasn't gotten round yet: Larry McMurtry has announced that a public auction will be held August 10 and 11 at his colossal bookstore in Ar
Earlier this week Christie's unveiled an extraordinary fifteenth-century Jewish festival prayer
At the rare evening sale of the Kenneth Nebenzahl library at Christie's tonight, a full set of Edward Curtis'
With so much focus on New York this week, I did not want to miss taking a look at Dominic Winter's (South Cerney, England) auction of medical books, coming up on April 18.
When you think of literary cities you might visit in the U.S., what comes to mind? New York City; Concord or Amherst, Massachusetts; Hannibal, Missouri; Monterey, California—you get the drift.
Take a jaunt to the Grolier Club for a peek into old-school Scribner, when the publishing company founded by Charles Scribner could boast its own bookstore and a rare book operation with a serious
In 1543, Andreas Vesalius, the founder of modern human anatomy, published De Humani Corporis Fabrica (The Fabric of the
