Current Events & Trends | October 2020 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Video Fridays: Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca

Just this week Netflix dropped the new film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel, Rebecca. Starring Armie Hammer, Lily James, and Kristin Scott Thomas, the updated gothic romance has stiff competition from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 version, but we’ll give it a try!

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Rare Books

Agatha Christie, Someone At The Window. Typescript of an unpublished play, adapted from the short story The Dead Harlequin, c 1934.

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Literature Manuscripts

Gagosian's Rare Books Expert Offers New Private Library Advisory Service

Empire State Rare Book & Print Fair Debuts in NYC

Book Arts

Cover of Artists Making Books

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

The Order Creating Napoleon’s Traveling Library Signed by its Makers at Raab

New York Public Library Releases Special Edition Library Cards to Celebrate 50 Years of Hip-Hop

Auctions

Plate from Catherwood's Views of the Ancient Monuments

Alexandre Dumas, Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping, and Foyle's Books: Auction Preview

Magicana Letter Archive Leads Ricky Jay Collection Sale

Atomic Bomb Book Signed by Oppenheimer and Einstein to Auction

Book People

Bouquinistes by the Seine by Claude Attard CC.2.0

Rare Books Community Petition Paris Authorities Over Potential Bouquinistes Removal

Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize 2023 Winners Announced

Rare Book Specialist Ken Gloss on 'Improbable Finds' at the Grolier Club

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

Maps

Two first edition copies of the Greenwood London maps published in 1827

London Book Dealer Paul Bentley's Map Collection to Auction

Rare Spanish Armada Maps on Display for the First Time

John Speed 17th Century Atlas Makes Auction Debut

Americana

Lot 46: Papers of the Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary, including diaries, correspondence, lecture notes and more, 1877–1920. Estimate $50,000 to $75,000.

Robert Peary Papers and American Revolution Lead Americana Auction

A History of Collecting Bookmarks

Houdini and Thurston Perform Well at Magicana 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

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

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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