Collecting & Repatriation
For Fine Books & Collections subscribers, the painting above will look familiar. George Catlin’…
Stroll Through Jane Austen’s House — Virtually
Just as the UK’s writers’ homes museums were gearing up for the Christmas season, they have been…
Rare Books &c. at Auction This Week
A rather less busy week coming up in the salerooms, but here's what I'll be watching: The last of…
Video Fridays: Book Arts Prize Reveal
On October 23, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts announced Sara Langworthy as the winner of this…
A Postcard From a Prominent Author To … You
Collectors of modern & hypermodern first editions might be interested in a current online…
Bright Young Librarians: Dorothy Berry
Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Dorothy Berry, Digital Collections Program…
#DrawYourBookshop Launches on Twitter
London-based graphic novel publisher SelfMadeHero has launched a new social media campaign via…
For Sale: Keats’ Death Mask
As an object, the death mask of John Keats manifests the poet’s romantic and tragic life. It feels…
Rare Books &c. at Auction This Week
Another whopper of an auction week, as the next round of Aristophil material goes under the hammer…
Early Photography and Manuscript Archives in High Demand at Cowan’s
Cincinnati, OH – Cowan’s American Historical Ephemera and Photography auction surpassed…
Books, Posters & Ephemera at Potter & Potter's December Magic Sale
Chicago — Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce this nearly 500 lot sale to be held…
The Magic of the Draughtsman on Exhibit in NYC
New York — The lines between art, science and magic are explored in a new exhibition at Christopher…
Jane Austen Leads Fine Books & Manuscripts at Swann
New York — Swann Galleries’ Tuesday, November 17 sale of Fine Books & Manuscripts saw great…
Montaigne & Audubon Feature at Doyle’s Rare Books Auction
New York — Doyle’s Rare Books, Autographs and Maps timed auction closing on November 24, 2020…
Getman’s Virtual Bibliophilic Holiday Gift Fair, December 4-7
Boston – A Few of our Favorite Things, Getman’s Virtual Bibliophilic Holiday Gift Fair, will open…
Rare Hand-Colored First Edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle at Bonhams NY
New York — When Johannes Gutenberg introduced moveable type to Europe in 1439, he sparked a…
Pablo Neruda Collection Launched at Catawiki
Amsterdam — Thank goodness he adopted a pen name, as Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto is…
Classic Children’s Literature in Demand at Tennants
Leyburn, North Yorkshire, UK -- Tennants Auctioneers’ Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Photographs Sale…
Administration Union Ticket, Sacramento, California, 1851.

Election Ephemera

Peggy Carouthers
In 2008, when Alicia Yin Cheng stumbled across an article in the New Yorker chronicling the strange, fraught history of American elections, she had no idea that just twelve years later she would be publishing a book on the visual history of the printed ballot.
Arthur Miller

New York Public Library Acquires Arthur Miller’s Personal Study Library

The NYPL has acquired by gift, and through the generosity of his family, Arthur Miller's collection of his published plays, books, translations, anthologies, and other publications relating to his work in various editions.
Charles Dickens stamps

UK Post Office Issues New Dickens Stamps

Alex Johnson
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of Charles Dickens this year, the Isle of Man Post Office in association with the Charles Dickens Museum in London has produced a set of six stamps featuring five of John Leech’s illustrations for A Christmas Carol.
Vignola, Regola delli cinque ordini d’architettura

Collection of Stunning French Renaissance Bindings Reunited

Rebecca Rego Barry
The Morgan Library & Museum opened "Poetry and Patronage: The Laubespine-Villeroy Library Rediscovered," an exhibition that brings together spectacular bindings from the library of Claude III de Laubespine.