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…
News
New York—Charles Percier: Architecture and Design in an Age of Revolutions has been awarded the 2017 Alice Award.
Book Fairs
Thirty of the world’s leading specialist dealers in rare books, manuscripts, maps and photography will gather in Hong Kong, 17-19th November, to showcase some of the most precious and notable collector’s items. In its sixth year, China in Print is managed by Bernard Quaritch of London and the…
Auctions
New York—On Thursday, October 19, Swann Auction Galleries’ sale of Art & Storytelling: Art & Photobooks combined works spanning the lifetime of the medium into an auction intended to “highlight the interrelationships between fine art, documentary and vernacular
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The Letters About Literature program kicks off its 25th annual competition, run by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, with a special webinar for educators interested in learning more about the program and how to use it in a classroom on October 25, 2017 at 4 p.m. The program…
Auctions
An important Albert Einstein handwritten manuscript is among items to be featured in The Remarkable Rarities auction by Boston-based RR Auction. 
Bookseller Martin Stone, regarded as one of the best book hunters (and guitar players) in modern memory, died nearly a year ago now, but his legend clearly lives on.
Auctions
After the success of last year’s auction, which raised over £75,000, The Hepatitis C Trust’s Art on a Postcard Secret Auction returns for its 4th year this November.
News
AUSTIN, Texas—The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin is now home to the Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry Collection.
Auctions
Los Angeles—Thirty-eight handwritten letters by Harper Lee to her friend Felice Itzkoff, will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on October 26, 2017.
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