August 2013 | Rebecca Rego Barry

How to Identify a First Edition

The good folks at Peter Harrington have produced a short video to help book collectors identify modern first editions. Take a look:

How to Identify First Editions from Peter Harrington on Vimeo.

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Maps

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Scotland's First Atlas and Shakespeare’s First Folio at National Library of Scotland

London Book Dealer Paul Bentley's Map Collection to Auction

Rare Spanish Armada Maps on Display for the First Time

Sponsored

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Americana

A Charlie Brown Christmas original Charlie Brown production cel Signed by Bill Melendez

Early 'Peanuts' Strips and 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' Drawings to Auction

Smithsonian Acquires Major Phillis Wheatley Peters Collection

John Steinbeck’s Sword and First Draft Fragment of ’Of Mice and Men’ Eaten by his Dog to Auction

Visual Art

L'Arroseur Arrosé (The Waterer Watered) poster

World’s First Movie Poster Makes its Debut at Auction

Historic Batman and Robin, Star Wars, and X-Men Covers Plus Frank Frazetta Art To Auction

New Exhibition Shows Unseen Works by Moomins Creator Tove Jansson

Book People

Antique books

Rare Book School Scholarship and Fellowship Applications Now Open

Books Are the Best Zoom Background for Online Meetings Say Researchers

Poetry Foundation Library: Small presses, chapbooks and Langston Hughes

Photographs

The daguerreotype set of the franklin expedition men in their uniforms

Historic Franklin Expedition Photos Sold For £444,500

Rare Early Photographs By and Of African Americans Acquired by National Gallery of Art

Final Photographs of Doomed Franklin Expedition to Auction

Auctions

From the Ken Rapoport Collection: Lot 32: Juan Rufo, La Austriada, Madrid, first edition, 1584. Estimate $3,000 to $5,000; Lot 18: Pedro de Espinosa, Primera Parte de las Flores de Poetas Ilustres de España, Dividida en los Libros, first edition, Valladolid, 1605. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000.

Works on the History of Psychiatry to Auction at Swann

Marilyn Monroe's First Film Contract and Columbus’s 'Discovery' Letter at Christie's

Queen Mother Letter to James Barrie Featuring Queen Elizabeth II Drawing to Auction

Rare Books

A Soldier's Story by General Omar N. Bradley

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Empire Book Fair

Folio Society Releases Limited Edition of Shakespeare's Complete Plays

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Literature Manuscripts

Book Arts

Marble endpaper by Beth Kephart

Beth Kephart on The Secret Language of Endpapers

Innovative 'Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings' Book Explores Post-Pandemic World

New Book Focuses on Artists’ Books From the Middle East and Beyond

Exhibitions

George Lowther, The Adventures of Superman. Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., No. 656. From the collection of Molly Guptill Manning.

Did the US Have the Best-Read Army in World War II?

New Exhibition on Bloomsbury Group and Fashion Opens

Phaidon and Christie’s Celebrate a Century of Bookmaking