British Library Publishing will publish Agatha Christie: A World of Mystery exploring the writer's…
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A new film about the Blavatnik Honresfield Library that was saved for the nation last year will be shown as part of a special event at the British Library in London.
For more than a decade, Fine Books has produced a holiday gift guide for bibliophiles. All year long, we bookmark unique items that come to our attention, and then, when the season arrives, we share the list of our favorite things. Here are the top ten for 2022:
RR Auction's December Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale brings over 1,000 items to the auction block. A special animation section features production cels from a number of Disney classics, plus concept paintings by legendary artists Mary Blair and Eyvind Earle.
The Austrian novelist, biographer, and polymath Stefan Zweig, who took his own life in despair in 1942 after being hounded into exile by the Nazis, was one of the leading manuscript collectors of the 20 th century.
A worldwide effort to crack the code that Charles Dickens used to write his notes has won a Times Higher Education Award, one of the most prestigious accolades in UK Higher Education.
University of Leicester, in collaboration with the University of Foggia took home the Research Project of the Year…
As book historian David Pearson points out in this excellent compendium, Speaking Volumes: Books with Histories, we all agree that books are A Good Thing, the real issue he wants to address is why they matter and what they can teach us beyond their texts.
Artist, composer, and writer Tom Phillips, who died on November 28 in London, worked in many creative disciplines. He is perhaps best known to readers of Fine Books for his book illustrations and in particular his cult classic A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel, a work he described as his “…
Amsterdam, The Netherlands - The Catawiki books department is very pleased to highlight this Single Seller Sale in our Antiquarian Books auctions. Over 40 books from one leading Italian seller. Ranging in genres from agriculture to alchemy, medicine, war history and beyond, this showcase focuses on…
Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce the results of this this nearly 700 lot sale held on Thursday, November 17, 2022. After the hammer fell silent after a long day of competitive bidding, 94 lots made $500-2,000; 17 lots sold for $2,001-9,999; and four lots broke the five figure…
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
At ALDE on Tuesday, November 29, Reliures Originales & Livres Illustrés Modernes, in 267 lots. Among the expected top lots is Stéphane Mallarmé's Poésies (1932), illustrated by Matisse and estimated at €22,000–30,000.
