Current Events & Trends | November 10, 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

ESA Ephemera Fair 2026 Opens Today

Future of William Wordsworth's Rydal Mount Home Secured

Edinburgh Rare Book Fair 2026 Details

Photographs

A group of 14 Carte de Visites of Abraham Lincoln and family

Cartes de Visite: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Photography Collection of Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner to Auction

Getty Acquires Photographer Irving Penn’s 'Cuzco' Work

Americana

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

Rare Books

Jane Austen autograph cut signature ("your affecte Aunt/ J. Austen")

Autograph Album Featuring Jane Austen: Rare Book of the Week

How Palm-Leaf Manuscripts Preserve Indonesia’s Heritage

Jack Kerouac's On The Road Scroll Sold for Recordbreaking $12m

Book Arts

Antony Gormley's Tree for Waiting for Godot on an upland bog in the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark Co. Fermanagh at the July 2019 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

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’

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Maps

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Auctions

The March 19 auction includes this exterior wire photograph view of Lewis Michaux's African National Memorial Bookstore, a Harlem institution from 1932 to 1974 (New York, July 23, 1964)

Swann Galleries Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Annual Printed & Manuscript African Americana Auctions

King James I, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington Lead Autographs Sale

Illustrated Edition of First Cookbook Written by an American Heads PBA Galleries Sale

Exhibitions

First edition of Sean O’Casey’s play The Plough and the Stars, a Tragedy in Four Acts (1926), inscribed to painter Augustus John

New Exhibition Focuses on The Irish Literary Revival

National Library of Scotland’s Centenary Tour Heads to Shetland

'Pets & their People' Exhibition Launches Season of the Natural World Series

Visual Art

A Chicana Printmaker’s Radical Archive

Matisse’s Late-Career Cut-Outs Show an Artist Overcoming Limitations

Vintage Posters: Five Rare Books for Collectors

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

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