Fine Books News: Recent
The Antiquarian Book School Foundation has announced the return of the 2026 CABS-Minnesota…
A comprehensive collection of personal Colonel Harland Sanders memorabilia including his personal…
Topics
In 2019, V. M. Braganza was browsing the Sokol Books booth at London’s Firsts Antiquarian Book Fair, when she felt as if she had been “struck by lightning,” she said via email. The source of her shock was an elaborate gilt monogram on a brown, seventeenth-century leather binding, which she…
New York—Continuing a tradition of offering specialized auctions, Swann Galleries will offer its second edition of The Artists of the WPA on Thursday, January 27 which aims to call attention to the generation of artists that contributed to the Federal Arts Project and the varying “alphabet agencies…
Enthusiasts of the works of Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) will soon have the opportunity of settling down for the night in his home.
New York – The Morgan Library & Museum presents Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work in Community, opening January 28, 2022, and running through June 5, 2022. This exhibition celebrates the life and work of American poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000). Though Brooks is well known for her poetry, few…
Debuting later this week at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is an exhibition called Mapping Fiction that highlights the way in which mapped spaces have played a role in fiction, e.g., Joyce’s Dublin, Tolkien’s Middle-Earth, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous island.
A trio of sales I'll be keeping an eye on this week:
Fine Books & Ephemera at New England Book Auctions ends on Tuesday, January 11. The 192 lots include a number of lots of Limited Editions Club titles, a late-seventeenth-century sammelband of theological works, and a very wide range of other…
San Francisco, CA – Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to present the Holbrook T. Mitchell Collection of Books & Manuscripts on January 29, 2022. From the estate of a Northern California collector, the auction features 85 lots of antique or vintage written works in various languages from…
For our current issue, Alex Johnson talked to Kate McCaffrey, assistant curator at Hever Castle, the childhood home of Anne Boleyn, about a major discovery she made last year while studying two illuminated books of hours once owned by the former queen. In this short video, meet McCaffrey and castle…
Today we’re talking with John Hill, author of the elegant new book, Buildings in Print: 100 Influential & Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books (Prestel, 2021). This the seventh book by the influential architecture blogger (see: A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books), and in it Hill delivers a…
Pasadena, CA — Rare Books LA is hosting a free panel discussion: THE NOVEL OF THE CENTURY: Reflecting on James Joyce’s Ulysses on the 100th Anniversary of its Publication.
Thursday, January 27
1 pm PT / 4 pm ET
Ulysses is considered one of the most important works of modernist…
