Fine Books News: Recent

The Morgan Library & Museum's Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling will…
The J. Paul Getty Museum will open its Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages…
Auctions
Dallas, TX – A collection of John F. Kennedy’s personal campaign notes and a selection of letters signed by assorted U.S. presidents led the total result for Heritage Auctions’ Historical Manuscripts Auction to $1,164,278 April 22 in Dallas, Texas.
Auctions
Haarlem, The Netherlands — We are pleased to announce that the catalogue of our coming auction of 26-29 May is available online on our website https://www.bubbkuyper.com. It will be updated regularly, with extra photographs. The auction catalogues can also be viewed as pdf on our Homepage  …
Auctions
Chicago, IL — Potter & Potter Auctions' Fine Books and Manuscripts Sale event, streamed live from the auction gallery and conducted entirely online and through telephone bidding, was a dramatic success, exceeding its high estimate by almost 20%. After the hammer fell silent, 61 lots realized $…
Book Fairs
Even though we have had to cancel the 2020 Rose City Book & Paper Fair scheduled for June 12-13 in Portland, Oregon, we are still going to have a book fair! The inaugural Rose City Virtual Book Fair will take place during the same weekend the fair was originally scheduled. We are very happy…
Recent Publications
London — There are few novels as unconventional as The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. A fictional autobiography of hapless anti-hero Tristram Shandy, it is one of the greatest works of imagination in English literature.
Auctions
Boston — With over 1,000 lots up for bidding, RR Auction's May Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale is the biggest thus far in 2020, with online bidding through May 13.
News
Washington, D.C. — To celebrate the 220th anniversary of its founding, the Library of Congress announced the release of the LOC Collections app, the premiere mobile app that puts the national library’s digital collections in the hands of users everywhere.
Current Events & Trends
In 1935, the publishing company, Little, Brown commissioned N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945) to create the dust jacket art for a novel called The Hurricane. It was the tail end of the “golden age of illustration,” and Wyeth, one of America’s greatest illustrators, having created nearly 4,000 illustrations…
Auctions
Westport, CT – Bob Dylan’s handwritten and signed lyrics to the classic rock song Like a Rolling Stone, a superb document signed by the British physicist Sir Isaac Newton, and discharge papers for a teenage soldier who lived to be 100 signed by George Washington are just a few of the…
Bright Young Librarians
Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Devin Fitzgerald, Curator for Rare Books and the History of Printing at the UCLA Library Special Collections in California. What is your role at your institution?