June 2010 | Jonathan Shipley

What are the Best Book Covers of 2009?

The one above, according to the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and 49 others.

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Rare Books

America's National Game

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Baseball

Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair Returns to Saatchi Gallery

Landmark $10.5m Shakespeare Folio Offering at Peter Harrington

Visual Art

Diamond hair ornament

Tennyson Family Jewels to Auction

The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery Launches

National Audubon Society Decides to Retain Name

Auctions

John Speed’s A Prospect of the most famous Parts of the World

John Speed 17th Century Atlas Sells for £33,750

Raverat Engravings, Wellington Letters, and 54th Massachusetts Surgeon's Diary: Auction Preview

J. J. Lally Reference Library Under the Hammer

Americana

Hemingway's letter from July 29, 1955

Hemingway Reflects on Writing and Death in Unpublished Letters

Whaling Journal and Civil War Diaries to Auction

Canadian Banknote with Queen Elizabeth II Portrait Leads Auction

Book Arts

Vincent Valdez

Arion Press Launch New Book Arts Residency

18th Annual Wonderland Awards: Call for Entries

New Edgar Allan Poe Edition Binding Features Brick Dust from his Home

Photographs

Ansel Adams, Moonrise

Ansel Adams, Paul Greenberg, and Beatles in America Photographs to Auction

Berenice Abbott’s 1929 Photographic Album of New York City on Show

Irving Penn, Diane Arbus, and Richard Avedon Photographs to Auction

Book People

The British Library

British Library Publishes Latest Gender Pay Gap figures

James Fenton Archive Acquired by Harry Ransom Center

Bright Young Collectors: Alexandra Plane

Exhibitions

Arthur Rackham illustration for 1915 edition of A Christmas Carol

Dickens and the London Fog Exhibition Opens

Deathless Fragments Manuscript Exhibition Opens

Flower Fairies Centenary Celebrated in New Exhibition

Maps

John Speed's atlas

John Speed 17th Century Atlas Makes Auction Debut

18th Century California Map the First to Depict San Francisco Bay

Medieval & Early Modern Maps on View at Yale

Sponsored

reading a book

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale