Fairs | March 10, 2011 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Florida Antiquarian Book Fair This Weekend

Coming up this weekend, the 30th annual Florida Antiquarian Book Fair. In honor of that, the Florida Antiquarian Booksellers Association has posted an interview on the fair's beginnings with Michael Slicker, ABAA proprietor of Lighthouse Books in St. Petersburg, FL.

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Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Book People

A screengrab from Timothy Kenny's Bookshelf Tour of The Largest Home Library on Reddit - Complete Loeb Classical Library and More video on YouTube

Hours Long YouTube Library Tours

Her Majesty The Queen to Appear in New BBC Programme on Power of Books

Life-Size Bronze Sculpture of Margaret Fuller Donated to Concord Free Public Library

Book Arts

Miami Zine Fair 2025

Miami Zine Fair 2026 Details

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Rare Books

Magna Carta Regis Johannis XV die Junii AD MCCXV Anno Regni XVII

Illustrated Magna Carta: Rare Book of the Week

Writers' Autographs: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Oldest Surviving Book on Chess to Auction with £100,000 Estimate

Auctions

Elvis Presley's Bible

Elvis Presley's Bible and Noel Gallagher's Handwritten Oasis Lyrics to Auction

Fluxus 1, Witch Paranoia, Maths Archive: The Week in Rare Books

Horatio Nelson's Trafalgar Order of Battle Sold for $189,888 at Auction

Visual Art

Alphonse Mucha, La Trappistine, 1897. Color lithograph.

New Exhibition to Explore Influence of Alphonse Mucha

Original Asterix Cover Art, Moebius, and Frank Frazetta to Auction

Original Art from 'The Death of Superman' to Auction

Exhibitions

Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects: Religious and Moral (London: Printed for A. Bell, Bookseller, Aldgate; and Sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773)

Princeton Hosts Two Exhibitions Marking Nation’s 250th Anniversary

Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press at Charleston

New Exhibition Focuses on The Irish Literary Revival

Americana

Clemens business card

Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln Memorabilia to Auction

Post-Washita General Custer Letter Sold at Auction for $550,000

Gettysburg Rail Pass and Lincoln’s Last Message to Congress to Auction

Photographs

Laura Gilpin’s The Rio Grande Yields its Surplus to the Sea (1946)

Ansel Adams’ 'Winter Sunrise' and Milton Esterow Collection to Auction

Edward Steichen’s 'Balzac' Leads Photography Masterworks Auction

Cartes de Visite: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Maps

London in the 18th Century

New Book Focuses on Historic First Detailed Map of 18th Century London

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors