March 2010 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Happy Birthday, Jack

Today is Jack Kerouac's birthday. Read/listen about him on NPR's "Writer's Almanac." Or, if you missed it, read about him and his troubled estate, from our January issue.

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The Fine Books Blog

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Exhibitions

House of Frankenstein

Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein Opens

Dickens Museum Serves 'Some More' Oliver Twist

The Carle Presents Speechless: The Art of Wordless Picture Books

Book Arts

Jayne Wrightsman Bookbindings

Video Fridays: Conserving French Bookbindings at the Morgan Library

Kelmscott Day, June 26, Celebrates the Beauty of the Book

Funding the First Fine Press Edition of Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon

Maps

Dr. John Snow used this map to further demonstrate that cholera was not caused by foul city air but by something in the water.

Maps in the Time of Cholera

British Library Makes 40,000 Historical Maps Available Online

The Legendary Vladi Collection of Historical Maps at Guernsey’s

Americana

Thomas Jefferson letter

Jefferson Letter Sold for $68,750 at Auction

World Record-Breaking Sale of Earliest CA Book at PBA Galleries

Revolutionary War Diary Found in Shoebox Donated to Museum

Auctions

Third World Gay Revolution cards

LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History at Swann Galleries Aug 19

Rare Books &c. at Auction This Week

Harry Potter & 17th-Century Recipes: Auction Results at Tennants

Visual Art

Leonetto Cappiello’s Chocolat Klaus

Rare Posters Auction Totals $1.9 Million in Sales

UK Places Export Ban on Unique Gould Volumes

Video Fridays: The Lore of Magazines

Photographs

Ilse Bing, Self-Portrait with Leica

Opening: The New Woman Behind the Camera

On View: Photographer and Social Reformer Lewis Hine

Author Lisa See Gives Huntington Rare Photos of LA’s Original Chinatown

Rare Books

Book 12 of the Florentine Codex

Getty Presents Free Virtual Reading of a Nahua Historical Narrative, August 13

Farm to Table … at the Folger Shakespeare Library

For Sale: Elvis Presley’s Annotated Copy of The Prophet

Sponsored

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The Catawiki Books Department Expands Its Reach

‘Democratized’ Book, Map, and Manuscript Auctions Promise Finds in All Price Ranges

Potter & Potter to Auction Science, Americana, and more at October Sale

Book People

Owl Pen Books

Antiquarian Bookshop in Bucolic Upstate NY Seeks New Owners

Aphra Behn Statue Planned for Canterbury

Bright Young Booksellers: Holly Segar