Current Events & Trends | November 2009 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Happy Returns Redux

It seems returning war booty is a trend. The New York Times ran an article yesterday about a two-volume Bible that vanished from a library in Vienna during Kristallnacht. The sixteenth-century book is now on its way home, 71 years later.

Book People

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Harlem Renaissance, Maya Angelou manuscripts, Steve Biko letters

York Antiquarian Book Seminar 2023: Review

Collector or Custodian?: Saying Goodbye to A Unique First Edition

Rare Books

Cassell's Household Guide. Being a Complete Encyclopaedia of Domestic and Social Economy, and forming a Guide to Every Department of Practical Life. London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, no date (about 1900?). Estimate: 3,000 - 4,000 SEK

Culinary Manuscripts and Rare Woodcuts in Books, Maps & Manuscripts Auction

Jane Austen's Personal Signed Copy of Isaac D'Israeli’s 'Curiosities of Literature': $150,000 Auction Estimate

£150,000 Estimate for Rare First Edition of Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' at Auction

Book Arts

Poster for Durham University International Bookbinding Competition 2024

Durham University Launches Inaugural International Bookbinding Competition

Bram Stoker Festival Returns This Weekend

New Paper Sculpture at Folger Pays Homage to its 16th and 17th Century Book Collection

Maps

Chas. W. Pressler and A. B. Langermann. Map of the State of Texas

1879 Map of Texas Sold For Recordbreaking $705,000

Maps of the American Continent and Revolutionary War Lead Swann Auction

Jefferys' American Atlas and Nelson Mandela's Personal Law Handbook at Frieze Masters London

Auctions

Historic Mao Zedong-Signed Banquet Menu Sold for $275,000

Jack Kerouac's Original Typescript Scroll Manuscript of The Dharma Bums to Auction

Hemingway Manuscript, Brontë First Editions, Early Burmese Photographs: Auction Preview

Americana

Unpublished Account of Two Englishmen's Journey Across Colonial America Sells For £30,000

Scarce JFK & RFK Signed Presidential Pardon to Auction

Sought-After Comic Books and George Clooney's Batman Suit to Auction

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Photographs

Photo of WW1 Soldiers Leaving for War in 1915 with Trench Diary to Auction

Unseen Photos from Fatal 1910 Air Races to Auction

Unseen Photographs of Future King Sold for £10,625

Visual Art

Rembrandt's Etching of Faust to Auction

Charlie Mackesy's 'The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the horse' Original Works at Bonhams

The Picture Book Art of Seymour Chwast on Show at Eric Carle Museum

Exhibitions

Image of the Wife of Bath from Caxton’s second edition of The Canterbury Tales, placed above her description in the General Prologue

New Exhibition Tracks Influence of Geoffrey Chaucer Across the Centuries

'Malorie Blackman: The Power of Stories' Opens at the British Library

World's First Dedicated Wilkie Collins Exhibition Opens

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