Current Events & Trends | November 2010 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Jane Eyre: The Action Film

Turn down your volume and buckle your seat belt. FocusFeatures just released the official trailer for one action-packed version of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. But I'll be waiting with ticket in hand, March 2011.

Visual Art

Charlie Mackesy, One Day You'll See, watercolour and ink on paper. Estimate: £3,000-5,000

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

UCLA Library Receives $4.2 Million Political Cartoon Collection Spanning Centuries

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

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

Rare Books

Jane Austen's copy of Curiosities of Literature

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

ABAA Holiday Virtual Book Fair and Firsts Online Book Fairs

Maps

Lot 135: C.L. Hawkins, Chicago the Greatest Inland City in the World, color-lithographed perspective map of Chicago looking west from Lake Michigan, Chicago, 1938. Estimate $800 to $1,200.

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

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

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

Book People

Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Captain Francis Grose

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

Newly Discovered Handwritten Quotation of Albert Einstein on the Purpose of Learning

Portico Library Awarded £453,964 to Transform its Historic Building

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Americana

Scarce JFK & RFK Signed Presidential Pardon to Auction

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

Walt Whitman's Hair and other Whitmaniana Under the Hammer

Auctions

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

Bob Dylan Artwork and Jim Morrison Handwritten Lyrics to Auction

Royal Letters, Aristocratic and War Diaries, and Early Mountain Photography at Tennants

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