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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The number of independent bookshops in membership of the Booksellers Association in the UK and Ireland has grown for the sixth consecutive year, marking a decade of growth following over 20 years of decline, the Booksellers Association has announced.
Cities in England and Wales are offering a behind the scenes look at the making of the HBO and BBC’s multi-award-winning His Dark Materials series to coincide with the third and final instalment of Philip Pullman’s trilogy comprising Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass.
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
Tropic Bound - South Florida’s first international biennial artists’ book fair - arrives this spring at the Miami Design District. This vibrant event will showcase the unique artistic genre known as 'artists’ books'. These complex creations bridge the worlds of art, craft, and literature: telling…
Memories of the Fab Four come to Sworders this month. The Design sale on January 17 includes autographs of all four members of The Beatles taken in January 1965 at the Hammersmith Odeon.
The vendor is the nephew of the writer and broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy and his wife the ballerina Moira Shearer…
Highlights from the latest joint Antiquariaat Forum BV and Asher Rare Books catalogue Caricature & Satire include:
* Rare first French edition of a detailed and thoroughly illustrated practical handbook of the art of caricature by the English antiquarian, lexicographer and army captain…
A celebration of some of Shakespeare’s most memorable female characters comes to auction at Christies in New York later this month as part of its The Exceptional Sale.
The Shakespeare Heroines is a Coalport porcelain service which was first exhibited at the 1871 London International Exhibition. It…
Turn Every Page, a new film that chronicles the 50-year collaboration between author Robert A. Caro and editor Robert Gottlieb, debuted last week in New York and Los Angeles. Caro, now 86, is an award-winning writer who is currently at work on the final volume of his Lyndon Johnson biography.…
The Grolier Club in New York City - America’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles - will celebrate visionary contemporary American artists who revolutionized and re-energized the creative legacy of paper arts. Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s…
RR Auction's first sale of 2023 brings the 'golden age' of the American gangster to the forefront, featuring remarkable items chronicling the lives and times of notorious figures like Al Capone, John Dillinger, Bonnie Parker, and Clyde Barrow.
