On the Horizon: CA Book Fairs & Related Goings-on
As the antiquarian book world readies for the first of its big gatherings of 2020, we thought we’d…
UK Bars Export of Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Guide for Hermits
Last week, UK Arts Minister Helen Whately announced a temporary export ban on “The Myrowr of…
Visualizing Poetry at the Center for Book Arts
Last week, the Center for Book Arts (CBA) in New York City debuted an exhibition that truly takes…
Rare Books &c. at Auction This Week
Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on this week: At Forum Auctions on Tuesday, January 21, …
Surrealist Art Books Headed to Auction
Last July, Christie’s Paris held the first major sale of art books from the estate of renowned…
Stunning Collection of Designer Bindings on View
The Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, unveiled today its latest exhibition, a…
Bright Young Collectors: Manon Schutz
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Manon Schutz, of Luxembourg, who recently…
Anne Brontë Bicentenary Exhibition to Open
The Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, England, has been closed this month for conservation work,…
Rare Books &c. at Auction This Week
Kicking off the week is the Fine Books, Maps, and Manuscripts sale at Revere Auctions (online), in…
Florida Booklovers' Tour Open for Booking
Florida — The FABS Study Tour of the Tampa Bay area April 22-26, 2020 is now open to all booklovers…
Drawing: The Muse of Photography Opens Jan. 24
New York — In its early years photography was regarded by many observers as a form of drawing. As…
Suntup Editions to Publish Limited Edition of Red Dragon
Irvine, CA – Suntup Editions, publisher of fine limited edition books and art prints, is delighted…
UCL to Run Student Book Collecting Prize
London — UCL has opened submissions for the Anthony Davis Book Collecting Prize, to encourage…
Vintage Posters at Swann on Feb. 13
New York — Swann Galleries’s biannual offering of Vintage Posters on Thursday, February 13 presents…
At Master Drawings NY, Les Enluminures on Collecting Illuminations
New York — Why do we collect? What do we collect? How do we collect? This exhibition encourages…
Folio Society Publishes New Edition of Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
London — Frank, radical and unashamedly feminist, Anne Brontë’s ground-breaking masterpiece The…
Getty Presents Rare Platinum Photographs
Los Angeles – The J. Paul Getty Museum presents In Focus: Platinum Photographs, featuring more than…
Poster Auction Features 250 Rare and Iconic Works
New York –– The 80th auction from Poster Auctions International includes an array of fascinating…
An Oasis in the Badlands - Sioux, 1905

The Republication of “One of the Greatest Sets of Books Ever Produced in America.”

Scholars say The North American Indian may be the greatest set of books in North American publishing history. Unfortunately, because of its cost and scarcity it is often inaccessible to scholars and researchers.
“On the Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin

First Edition of “On the Origin of Species” at Morton Subastas

On Tuesday, January 28th, 2020, Morton Subastas will host a remarkable auction: Books by Explorers and Travelers, Maps, Landscapes, Science, and Religion including a rare copy of Darwin's The Origin of Species.

Little Women bindings

Books in Movies: Binding for Little Women

Barbara Basbanes Richter

Massachusetts-based bookbinder Devon Eastland was tasked with creating period-appropriate book props for the film. She spoke with us about that experience.

At First All Went Well

The Lives of Book Collectors (and Booksellers, Publishers…)

Rebecca Rego Barry

Two recent books by the preeminent book historian Nicolas Barker, published by UK antiquarian booksellers Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., document the lives of mid-twentieth-century bibliophiles.