Fine Books News: Recent
Highlights from the exhibitors at the 2026 New York International Antiquarian Book Fair which runs…
Rare books from the personal library of pioneering British scholar of Armenian and Iranian studies…
Topics
At Bonhams London on Tuesday, November 14, 118 lots of Fine Books and Manuscripts, including a collection of material related to Alan Turing and Donald Bayley's work on the Delilah speech encryption system, which is estimated at £300,000–500,000. There is an extensive and really interesting essay…
The first in our new monthly series of new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors.How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling by Danny Caine
A water-stained menu for Titanic's first class restaurant which shows diners feasted on oysters, lamb and mallard duck before the cruise liner sank has been sold for £84,000.
The Hispanic Society Museum & Library in New York City has opened a new exhibition examining Pablo Picasso’s interpretation of and response to Spanish literature.Picasso and the Spanish Classics, which runs through February 4, 2024, is a part of the larger Picasso Celebration 1973 - 2023, an…
Goldin is featuring George Clooney’s famous Batman costume used in the 1997 film Batman & Robin alongside some of the most illustrious comic books of all time during its Fall Pop Culture Elite Auction.
The Raab Collection has acquired a Thomas Jefferson document of interest to bibliophiles everywhere: not only is it an autograph letter signed by Jefferson in which the third president orders books for his legendary library at Monticello, but the location of this original letter had been…
A 70mm lock of Walt Whitman's hair comes up for sale at Bonhams on November 21, with an estimate of $4,000 - $6,000.It comes with a contemporary autograph note in pencil from Thomas Donaldson describing its provenance, as well as a printed facsimile of a letter from Walt Whitman which was…
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Erin Severson, one of the winners of this years David Ruggles Prize in Book Collecting for young people of color.Where are you from / where do you live?
The manuscript, valued at £800,000 and at risk of leaving the country unless a UK buyer can be found, was previously unknown to scholars as it has been in private ownership for at least 300 years. It contains the signature of the former king, who ruled France from 1350 to 1364, during the Hundred…
The story of Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) captured the imagination of the Romantics. He was a genius young poet who forged a medieval manuscript, and yet faced with rejection by Horace Walpole and the establishment, committed suicide in a Holborn garret at the age of 17.
