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Rare Books &c. at Auction This Week
Here are the auctions I'll be watching this week:

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October 15, 2021
Video Fridays: Ricky Jay’s History of Magic Collection
In our spring 2016 issue, we interviewed master magician and book collector Ricky Jay on the occasion of the publication of his magnum opus and a…
October 14, 2021
The Bodleian Marks 400 Years of Melancholy
Four hundred years ago, Oxford scholar Robert Burton published what some now consider the ‘grandfather of all self-help manuals,’ The Anatomy of…
October 13, 2021
Anthony Powell, Nicolas Poussin, and the Dance
2021 marks seventy years since the first volume in Anthony Powell’s twelve-volume series A Dance to the Music of Time was published (more on this in…
Rare Books &c. at Auction This Week
Here's what I'll be watching this week: On Tuesday, October 12, 373 lots of Lettres & Manuscrits Autographes – Musique at Ader. The top…
October 8, 2021
Some Very Fine Fine Books Writers
Every so often, it’s my pleasure to report on Fine Books’ esteemed team of writers. (Last fall, for example, two of our writers published new books…
October 7, 2021
Grapes of Wrath Manuscript Published
Today is publication day for a limited edition manuscript facsimile of John Steinbeck’s National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner, The Grapes of…
October 6, 2021
"Lost" Tennessee Williams Story Surfaces
Strand Magazine, continuing a fine tradition of uncovering "lost" works, has discovered a previously unpublished story by Tennessee Williams. The…
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From the Pages of Fine Books & Collections
Autumn 2021
Autumn 2021
9 Anytime Gifts for Bibliophiles
If, like us, you have missed the annual Fine Books gift guide, pine no longer....
Rail & Road
Maps set “the stage on which the drama [of politics and business] is...
Artists Book House Finds a Home
Audrey Niffenegger was fifteen when she first entered the Harley Clarke...
Summer 2021
The Catawiki Books Department Expands Its Reach
In a turbulent year for many auction houses, Catawiki, an international online...
Arion Press Enters New Era
When Andrew Hoyem, founder of San Francisco’s Arion Press, retired in 2018,...
Sketches that Inspired Scott
As befits a writer who rediscovered the Scottish crown jewels, has a major...
Spring 2021
Chicanx Prints that Slay
Gilberto Cárdenas was a college student in Los Angeles when El Movimiento, or...
Collecting Leaf by Leaf
Wolf von Lojewski spontaneously bought five leaves from the Nuremberg Chronicle...
Edward Carey’s Novels Embrace Art and Found Objects
There really was never any doubt that Edward Carey, author of the new novel The...
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Brooks Turner, Nicole Soley, and Leah Willemin
MCBA Announces 2021–2022 Jerome Book Arts Residents
Minneapolis, MN — Minnesota Center for Book Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of the…

In The News

October 15, 2021
Lilly Library Acquires ‘Dame of Dictionaries’ Madeline Kripke’s Collection
Bloomington, IN — As National Dictionary Day approaches on Oct. 16 -- the birthday of Noah Webster -- Indiana University's Lilly Library has…
October 15, 2021
Hindman Auctions to Offer One of the Earliest Photographic Portraits Taken in America
Cincinnati, OH – On November 15, Hindman Auctions will offer The Henry Fitz Jr. Archive of Photographic History. Forgotten since the 1930s, a cache…
October 15, 2021
MCBA Annual Book Artist Award is Back After Yearlong Hiatus
Minneapolis, MN — The Minnesota Book Artist Award is a unique category at the Minnesota Book Awards, going beyond the content of a book’s pages to…
October 13, 2021
The Huntington Acquires W. Bruce Fye Cardiology Collection
San Marino, CA -- The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired one of the world’s most significant…
October 13, 2021
Fine Photographs at Swann Galleries October 21
New York — The Thursday, October 21 sale of Fine Photographs at Swann Galleries will offer exceptional examples from the medium’s brightest…
October 12, 2021
Cal State LA, USC Receive Grant to Digitize Mesoamerican and Spanish Colonial Material
Los Angeles — Cal State LA and USC have been awarded a nearly $500,000 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources to digitize…
October 12, 2021
Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books Returns to Frieze Masters
Basel, Switzerland — It has been a long time since we were all able to meet in-person and celebrate the wonderful art of so many eras, countries, and…
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