Bath Book Fair returns to Bath Pavilion later this week co-hosted by the Provincial Booksellers…
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Bonhams' upcoming sale of items from the Brentwood residence of William 'Billy' Haines includes a…
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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.
Potter & Potter Auctions' February 2023 Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana Sale is the company's first book sale of 2023 and follows on the heels of the company's October, 2022 sale which realized $1.1 million. This 531 lot sale will be held on February 16th starting at 10am CST…
The David Stather Library, a remarkable private collection put together over a lifetime by an avid bibliophile, was sold in a single-owner sale at Tennants Auctioneers, North Yorkshire on January 25. The collection reflected his overriding interests in history and the law, and each book had been…
After the largest redevelopment in its history, The National Portrait Gallery in London will reopen again on June 22, 2023, with a programme of major exhibitions featuring intimate, never-before-seen portraits of The Beatles taken by Paul McCartney, pioneering female photographers such as Yevonde,…
The Folio Society is celebrating its 75th anniversary by winning each of the four categories in which they were nominated at the 2022 British Book Design & Production Awards Awards. The editions honoured show the range and depth of Folio’s publishing, art direction and production expertise by…
A rare, handwritten and signed letter Edgar Allan Poe letter, a Paris Commune Photograph Album, and a first edition of the English translation by Charles Wilkins of the Bhagavad Gita from 1785 are among highlights from Bonhams Skinner’s Fine Books & Rare Manuscripts sale which is…
Following recent archival acquisitions that have expanded its collections of photography, the Bodleian Libraries has announced the opening of a season of photographic exhibitions and talks at the Weston Library, home of the Bodleian’s special collections.
