Fine Books News: Recent
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Porto's first Antiquarian Book Fair (1º Salão do Livro Antigo no Porto) will take place May 1-3 in…
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The Houses of Tove Jansson exhibition includes works that have not been publicly on display before including a number of her Moomin sketches.
Strange Types & Odd Sorts, subtitled A Peek into the World of Print in Ireland, has just been published by the National Print Museum and creative writing mentoring experts Fighting Words.
Hard Case Crime will be published a lost novel by Rex Stout, "Seed on the Wind," in November. Hard Case Crime founder and editor, Charles Ardai, recently spoke with us over email about the upcoming publication:In November, Hard Case Crime will be publishing Rex Stout's Seed on the Wind, a lost…
Highlights from Maggs Bros' Poetry 1506-1621 short list catalogue include:* Rare pocket edition of Ovid (Lyon, Godefroy & Marcellin Beringen, 1547)
The Grolier Club in New York City presents an exhibition this fall about the power of books and ideas at a time of censorship and repression.
The celebrations marking the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio are still ongoing, including the open access website First Folios Compared.
Doyle's 219-lot sale of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps ends on Tuesday, August 15. Lots include a deluxe copy of Charles Phair's 1937 Atlantic Salmon Fishing estimated at $10,000–15,000. Sharing an estimate of $2,000–3,000 are the first English edition of Edwin James' Account of an Expedition…
"Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry" is a new series of essays focusing on the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Oscar-winning screenwriter, and bookseller, who died in 2021 at the age of 84 and whose personal estate auction was held in May this year.
The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells is the first biography of one of the 'lost ladies' of detective fiction who wrote more than eighty mysteries and hundreds of other works between the 1890s and the 1940s.
Chiswick Auctions’ 'Books and Works on Paper' sale on August 24 will include two rare Georgian manuals on the art of boxing. Both were written by well-known bareknuckle prize fighters around 1790.
