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Stansted Mountfitchet, England — A rare Tudor manuscript designed to help with swan-keeping in the era when mute swans were owned by the English crown comes to auction in the summer. The two-volume manuscript included in Sworders’ August 23 sale of Books and Maps in Stansted Mountfitchet was used…
Dallas, TX — The sign's message was simple but irresistible: "History for Sale" — three words that would lead Carl Przyborowski on a four-decades-long pursuit. The Chicago-area building contractor saw the enticing sign outside a specialty shop on the Las Vegas Strip, where he and his wife were…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Erika Hapke Knowles, office manager at Bernett Penka Rare Books in Boston.
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As readers, parents, and bibliophiles, we at Fine Books have always been great fans of Eric Carle (1929-2021), and we were lucky enough to connect with him in our winter 2019 issue when his stupendously famous picture book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, turned fifty.
Washington, D.C. — Jennifer Meehan, head of the Eberly Family Special Collections Library at Penn State University, has been named director of the Library of Congress’ Special Collections Directorate effective Aug. 1.
San Francisco — The Arion Press, one of the nation’s foremost producers of fine press artist books, announces the publication of Woolgathering, a very special collaboration between two contemporary creative masters. Patti Smith is an icon of punk rock, renowned singer-songwriter and author whose…
She may have worn a shawl, but what did Jane Austen’s characters wear? In the costume dramas based on her classic novels, her Regency-era heroines and heroes don silk ball gowns and waistcoats, some of which are currently on view at Cincinnati’s Taft Museum of Art in a new exhibition titled Jane…
Paris — Independent publisher SP Books released the only surviving manuscript of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, published in book form for the very first time. Alongside the handwritten poem, 12 iconic illustrations by William Blake.
It's a lively week for rare books and manuscripts auctions; here's the rundown.
