Fine Books News: Recent

The Morgan Library & Museum's Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling will…
The J. Paul Getty Museum will open its Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages…
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Freeman’s first Books and Manuscripts auction of 2023 brings nearly 150 lots to market that will delight collectors of Presidential, Countercultural, Americana, Literature, and Civil Rights - era material.
Current Events & Trends
A miniature Charlotte Brontë volume, leaves from Sir Walter Scott’s Kenilworth, and Emily Brontë’s notebook of her poems are among items now available to view online.
Book People
Selections from the papers of Ian Rankin, Scotland’s best known contemporary crime writer, are now on view at the National Library of Scotland (NLS) in Edinburgh. In the aptly named exhibition, The Rankin Files, some of the author’s manuscripts and letters can be seen in public for the first time.
Auctions
Letters boldly signed by early American historical giants George Washington, John Hancock and Thomas Paine, plus a 1963 Christmas card signed by both JFK and Jackie, and an archive of material signed by Lincoln and Douglas, will all come up for bid in University Archives’ online auction slated for…
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To celebrate all things Scots poetry ahead of the celebrations for 2023’s Burns Night (January 25), VisitScotland has teamed up with Scottish acting legend James Cosmo MBE, who has appeared in some 130 Hollywood movies, including the likes of Game of Thrones, Trainspotting, Braveheart,…
Book Fairs
The first major book fair of 2023 takes place February 10 –12 as more than 120 exhibitors unite at the Pasadena Convention Center for the 55th California International Antiquarian Book Fair.
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The Booksellers Association (BA) has released the results of its annual Christmas Trading Survey, with respondents reporting strong sales overall, but a decline in high street footfall, and supply chain issues.  
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Highlights from Jonkers Rare Books' latest catalogue of fine first editions of classic children's books. From the late nineteenth century to the modern day including: * The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler First gift edition, signed by Donaldson and Scheffler, with a sketch of the…
More than a dozen letters written in the 1930s on behalf of the Duke of Windsor after his abdication will come to auction in Catherine Southon Auctioneers & Valuers’ Sale of Antiques and Collectables on February 8.