Fine Books News: Recent

A life-size bronze of writer Sylvia Townsend Warner has been unveiled in Dorchester her home county…
Decorations and holiday trees inspired by poems, traditional tales, and children’s books are on…
Bright Young Collectors
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Samantha Montano who collects disaster accounts. Samantha's collection also recently won an honorable mention in the Honey & Wax book collecting contest.
Exhibit
The Grolier Club is heralding the Winter holiday with the exhibition Radiant with Color & Art: McLoughlin Brothers and the Business of Picture Books, 1858-1920
Exhibit
Shapero Modern in conjunction with Sladmore Contemporary is delighted to present Sti
Book Fairs
Los Angeles, CA—From February 9-11, 2018, Southern California hosts the nation's largest rare book exhibition as thousands of book lovers, booksellers, and scholars converge at the
Auctions
Westport, CT - Pages from a ship’s log from June 1846 describing California’s famous “Bear Flag Revolt” that led to the state’s breakaway from Mexico and eventual statehood, and a set of Thomas Bowles 1720 South Sea Bubble playing cards that chronicled the original stock market
Auctions
Dallas, Texas - Collectors will have a chance to bid on more than 1,000 lots of the rarest and most beautiful posters ever offered by Heritage Auctions at its
Current Events & Trends
Fittingly, a new exhibition on witchcraft opens today at Cornell University. Pulled from the university's Witchcraft Collection, The World Bewitch'd spans five hundred years of witch-related material: trial documents, religious texts, spells, and even confessions explore a group of people, often…
Current Events & Trends
Guest post by Mark. S. Weiner, co-curator of the current Grolier Club exhibition, Law's Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection.
Auctions
NEW YORK—Sotheby’s is honored to announce a series of sales celebrating Jean Stein - author, editor and oral historian, who chronicled the lives and work of cultural and po
Auctions
 Ithaca, NY—National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, announces the launch of their next auction catalog.