Current Events & Trends | October 23, 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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Visual Art

Robert Louis Stevenson figure and bench structure during the sculpting process

Robert Louis Stevenson Statue Set for Unveiling

Lawrence Klein Comic Books and Comic Book Art to Auction

Rare Iron Man, Captain America, and Batman Comic Art to Auction

Maps

Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1601

Atlases and Maps: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

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

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Rare Books

The Tolkien letter about Tom Bombadil

Tolkien Letter on Tom Bombadil: Rare Book of the Week

Surrealist Artists' Books Go On Display

Newly-Identified Vita Sackville-West Manuscript for Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House Leads Bloomsbury Catalogue

Book People

Clare Marshall of Marshall Rare Books with the expanded edition of Johann Weyer's Praestigiis Daemonum, Et Incantationibus ac ueneficiis

Chelsea Rare Book Fair Returns This Month

Bright Young Booksellers: Dr. Irene Malfatto

Hallowe'en and Christmas Events at the Charles Dickens Museum

Americana

Captain Robert A. Lewis’s mission-used flight logbook from the Enola Gay

Enola Gay’s Hiroshima Logbook and Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ Lyrics Lead RR Auction Sale

Important African Americana Collection Leads at Freeman's

George Washington Wartime Letter to New York Governor Sold for $45,375

Exhibitions

Moominpappa at Sea cover sketch by Tove Jansson

Tove Jansson's Illustrations Focus of New Exhibition

Details of First U.S. Exhibition Devoted to Medieval Blockbooks

History and Legacy of Irish Literature Focus of New Exhibition

Photographs

May 1956, Ernest Hemingway and a 730lb Marlin

Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea' Location Photos to Auction

'Henry Wessel: Photographs and Books' at the Grolier Club

Sports and Music Photographs by Michael Zagaris to Auction

Auctions

De Cartis Salutat(ionis?)

15th Century Clerk’s Manual and Project Blue Book: The Week in Rare Books

Major Collection of Early English Bibles to Auction

Rare Books, Autographs & Maps

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’

Sponsored

On the Origin of Species

First Edition of “On the Origin of Species” Features at Ripley

1859 First Edition of Darwin’s "On the Origin of Species" to Lead Ripley Rare Books Auctions

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction