Fine Books News: Recent

The ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography sponsored by the International League of Antiquarian…
A life-size bronze of writer Sylvia Townsend Warner has been unveiled in Dorchester her home county…
A very busy auction schedule this week, with eight sales of note to keep an eye on.     
Fairs
Need a literary justification to visit the Caribbean this spring? Consider the NGC Bocas Lit Festival, taking place in downtown Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago. Billed as the region's premier literature festival, the Lit Fest is devoted to developing and promoting Caribbean authors by…
Book Fairs
New York City - Here on display are the bold and innovative ideas of the American Revolution and Founding, shown through official and personal letters, reports, and documents of its central players detailing t
Auctions
York, PA - After a 50th-anniversary year whose record-setting sales far surpassed all expectations, Hake’s Americana is on track for a blockbuster 2018.
Book Reviews
Lost books, medieval manuscripts, and secret archives are favorite topics for novelists, and we bibliophiles can't seem to get enough of them. I've read three varieties of bibliofiction recently, all entertaining, and each quite different from the others.  
Book Fairs
This March, Daniel Crouch Rare Books will exhibit the Jason C. Hubbard Collection at the Tokyo Book Fair (23 - 25 March).
News
Austin, Texas — The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the Fritz Henle archive, containing about 180,000 black-and-white negatives, 10,000 color transparencies, 150 contact sheet
Auctions
PBA Galleries realized strong sales in their February 22nd Fine Books sale.
Bright Young Librarians
Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Matt Bird, Special Collections Manager at Vigo County Public Library in Terre Haute, Indiana: