Fine Books News: Recent
The ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair has returned to the Park…
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with 2025 David Ruggles Book Collecting Prize…
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A major new display at The National Trust’s historic Mottisfont property in Hampshire focuses on the legacy of one of Britain's best-loved illustrators and cartoonists, Norman Thelwell.
More than 150 works including his trademark ponies and cartoons, plus beautiful watercolours of landmarks and…
A collection of some of the earliest US textbooks and style guides on punctuation is now on show at The Museum of Printing in Massachusetts.
At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, January 31, 210 lots of Literature, Miniatures, Graphics & Illustrated Books, including the 1969 Maecenas Press Alice in Wonderland portfolio with illustrations by Salvador Dali, Barry Moser's 1985 Wizard of Oz, and a vellum copy of the 1902 Essex House…
A banned World War II poster, best known by its nickname 'the blonde bombshell', is set to thrill as much as it did in 1941 at The Vintage Posters Sale between January 26 and February 2 online at bonhams.com. Designed by Abram Games, this rare vintage poster has become seductively infamous -…
An impressive single-owner collection of Football Ephemera & Programmes that includes items from the majority of football teams in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales as well as the World Cup, Internationals and the Olympics will be offered by Graham Budd Auctions on Tuesday, February 7,…
RR Auction's February Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction boasts over 850 rare and remarkable items and celebrates Presidents' Day with a special section featuring incredible presidential autographs, artifacts, and memorabilia.
A quick look at what's happening in and around California International Antiquarian Book Fair week. We'll be providing more details of these events in coming days.
Fairs and auctions
February 3-5: Rare Books San Francisco - For the first time in more than a decade, antiquarian book fairs return…
Highlights from Ken Spelman Books' latest catalogue of recently acquired rare books and manuscripts in gardening and botany including:
* Flowers: their Moral, Language, and Poetry by Henry Gardiner Adams. Scarce. Halifax: Milner and Sowerby. 1866. First published in 1844, and by Milner in 1860.…
An exhibition of illuminated manuscripts that reveal the secret histories and adventures of these precious medieval objects as they were collected and sold, lost, and re-found, over the course of hundreds of years is coming to the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Drawn from the Getty’s collection, A Passion…
The New York Public Library has acquired the archives of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. The dual collection comprises the couple’s literary and personal papers and stands as a rich testament to two of the most successful and important writers in postwar America.
