Fairs | April 12, 2010 | Rebecca Rego Barry

New York, Continued

More from New York, but thankfully, not from me! A sweet article from Forbes ("Rare Books and Suicide Bombers") on the treasures at the NY fair this year.

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Americana

An 1885 contract signed by Sitting Bull for his appearance in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show

Unique 1885 Signed Sitting Bull Wild West Show Contract to Auction

Marilyn Monroe's Annotated Scripts, Bank Book, and Recipe for Stuffing to Auction

$4.5m Estimate for Major Benjamin Franklin Collection Auction

Visual Art

Thunderball artwork, 1965

James Bond Movie Posters Feature in Bonhams' World of Spies Sale

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration Confirms Summer Opening Date

Unseen Winnie-the-Pooh Preliminary Sketches Come to Light

Book People

Inscription by A. A. Milne to both his son Christopher Robin and the original Winnie-the-Pooh teddy bear in the first edition of Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

Firsts London Rare Book Fair 2026 Opens with Special Preview Night

Bright Young Collectors: Kaveh Bahar

Charles Dickens's Great-Great-Great Grandson to Perform Ancestor's Famous 'Sikes and Nancy' Scene

Rare Books

A Matter of Colour (in Tabula, Vol. XXII, No. 3. Oak Park, IL, Publishing Board of the Oak Park)

Ernest Hemingway: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Recently Recovered Stolen Keats Love Letters On Show Before Auction

Signed John Wilkes Booth Portrait, Founding Father Archive, and Citroën Photolog: The Week in Rare Books

Sponsored

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

Book Arts

Miami Zine Fair 2025

Miami Zine Fair 2026 Details

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’

Photographs

Jules Verne

Signed Authors’ Photographs: Five Rare Photos for Collectors

Center for Creative Photography Acquires Nine Photography Archives

The Photography Show Returns

Maps

London in the 18th Century

New Book Focuses on Historic First Detailed Map of 18th Century London

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Auctions

As You Like It complete play extracted from The First Folio, estimate: $30,000–$50,000

'As You Like It' First Folio Leads Library of Stephen J. Farber Auction

Exhibitions

Robert Lawson, illustration for The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf, 1936

90th Anniversary of 'The Story of Ferdinand' Celebrated with Special Exhibition

William Hogarth, Black Poetry, and the Harlem Renaissance lead Beinecke Exhibition Plans

Jane Austen's House Hosts New Clare Twomey Art Installation Inspired by Her Letters