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

George C. Wolfe working with Gregory Hines during a rehearsal for the Broadway production of the musical Jelly's Last Jam by Martha Swope, 1992.

New York Public Library Acquires George C. Wolfe Archive

Rare Book School Shares Summer 2023 Lecture Series

'Book Parts' Now Out in Paperback

Auctions

Lot 146: Charles Dickens, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, 'Prime Pickwick', surmised to be one of a few first editions bound in book form, London, 1837. Estimate $30,000 to $40,000.

Hemingway Autographed Scrapbook, Pancho Villa Letter, and 'Prime Pickwick' at Swann

Previously Unknown John Morgan Medical Manuscript to Auction

Tolkien Letters On His Own Hobbitness and the Creation of 'The Lord of the Rings' at Bonhams

Rare Books

Engraved pattern book of cast brass furniture fittings and other hardware

Five Rare Books for Collectors: House and Home

Thomas Cromwell’s Holbein Portrait Book of Hours Discovered

Unique Record of Medieval Live Comedy Performance Identified in a 15th Century Manuscript

Americana

Donna Summer's Handwritten Lyrics to Auction

Manuscript Fragment from The Scarlet Letter Leads Nathaniel Hawthorne Auction

Bibliophile's Lifetime African-American Collection Heads to Brown University

Maps

John Speed 17th Century Atlas Makes Auction Debut

18th Century California Map the First to Depict San Francisco Bay

Medieval & Early Modern Maps on View at Yale

Photographs

Newly Discovered World War II Document Signed by FDR and Winston Churchill

Photographic Evidence of Lartigue’s Daredevil Pet to Auction

ICP Photobook Fest Weekend Preview

Visual Art

Cartoonist Norman Thelwell Saves the Planet

Gould, Audubon, and Lear in New Exhibit Celebrating Writing About Birds

Books and Reading Centrestage at Chelsea Flower Show 2023

Exhibitions

Digital Storytelling at the British Library

New Interactive Exhibition Showcases How Technology Is Transforming Storytelling

New Exhibition Looks at Giving Books as Gifts

Leonardo da Vinci's 'Codex Atlanticus' to be Displayed in the U.S.

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Book Arts

John Milton biscuits design developed in collaboration with Milton’s Cottage.

Celebrate National Biscuit Day with Remarkable John Milton Biscuits

Kickstarter Tribute to Library of Congress Rare Books Expert Mark Dimunation

Countdown begins to Festival of Libraries

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