The Pickwick Papers, A. A. Milne's Pooh books, Jonathan Swift, and Samuel Johnson's Dictionary will…
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The York National Book Fair returns to the Knavesmire Suite at York Racecourse on September 12 and…
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Last fall, the mighty literary organization PEN, which originated in London as a dining club for writers, celebrated its 100th anniversary.
One room was abandoned when the piles neared the ceiling, and at some point a subsidence of books blocked the door from the inside, sealing the room off.
When I saw the news bit earlier this week that artist and novelist
New York – This fall, the Grolier Club in New York City—America’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles—presents a special exhibition that details how books have been produced throughout history and across various regions of the globe.
Headed to auction this week: rare science books, a Gutenberg Bible leaf, works on paper, photography, and more.
A garden spade owned by both George Bernard Shaw and Ray Bradbury is currently up for auction from Nate D. Sanders. The online auction, which includes many other lots from Ray Bradbury's personal art and book collections, concludes today at 5 p.m. PST. At the time of this writing, bidding on the…
The standard brick and mortar general rare bookshop is, for the most part, alas, a thing of the past. The Internet is now the world's general rare book shop; that and rising rents have driven many book shop owners to close their retail spaces.
In honor of the holiday upon us, here's a fun look at Thanksgiving past.
Five little puppies dug a hole under the fence and went for a walk in the wide, wide world....
It has been almost seven decades since those words first appeared in print, the first sentence in a modest little book that became, and remains, one of the best-selling, most widely collected…
