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The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the papers of literary scholar and cultural critic Harold Bloom who taught for six decades in the English Department at Yale University.
Jane Austen's House is trialling a new project offering limited opportunities for visitors to sit and write in Jane Austen's bedroom.Successful applicants for this brief 'Writer in Residence' scheme at the writer's house museum in Chawton, England, this autumn will be able to sit at a small table…
Divine Inspiration: The Legacy of the St. Francis Missal is now on view at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore focusing on a 12th-century missal believed by Franciscans to be a relic of touch of St. Francis of Assisi. The missal is rarely displayed due to its fragility, and is accompanied by…
Dave Brubeck's handwritten manuscripts, sketches, and books from his home library including his personal Bible are going under the hammer in Julian’s Auctions' online-only Dave Brubeck Collection sale running through September 17.
An archive chronicling more than six decades of life in Palestine has been saved from the risk of destruction and preserved at the Universities of Edinburgh and Exeter for study, teaching and research.The archive, comprising thousands of pages from diaries, personal documents and digital records,…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Adélaïde Carton of Le Feu Follet – Edition-Originale in Paris, France:How did you get started in rare books?
Highlights of Potter & Potter Auctions' Step Right Up: Circus and Sideshow Memorabilia sale on September 3 include:* With the Circus: A Route Book of Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows. Seasons of 1895 and 1896 by Alf. T. RinglingOriginal yellow-orange wrappers, printed in black. Illustrated…
The Wordsworth Trust, which operates Wordsworth Grasmere and Dove Cottage, has acquired three letters written by William Wordsworth.
The Sunderland Collection of world maps has announced the creation of Ex Carta, a sister collection dedicated to fictional and world-building cartography that spans more than 700 years across over 160 maps from 1506 to the present day.
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Ben Roylance, proprietor of Apport Used Books in Emmaus, Pennsylvania.How did you get started in rare books?
