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…
Auctions
BOSTON, MA  — A letter written by Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow to Raymond Hamilton, an ex-Barrow Gang member will be auctioned by Boston-ba
Events
Amherst, MA (August 24, 2016) - The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art celebrates the 50th anniversary of the beloved story that launched Eric Carle’s picture-book career—Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr—with the exhibition Brown Bear Turns 50. The exhibition…
News
As part of the 16th annual National Book Festival, the Library of Congress has added a free, robust smartphone app designed to help attendees get the most out of their all-day festival experience. The Library of Congress National Book Festival takes place Saturday, Sept. 24, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m…
In the 1920s, Spencer Kellog Jr. operated the small but influential Aries Press in Eden, New York.
Coming to auction next week in Edinburgh is a deluxe, large folio edition of Captain Cook's Florilegium: A Selection of Engravings from the Drawings of Plants collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Captain Cook's first Voyage to the Islands of the Pacific (The Lion and Unicorn Press…
Book Fairs
NORTHAMPTON, MA - OCTOBER 16, 2016: Flamingo Eventz and the Southern New England Antiquarian Booksellers have joined forces to present the 12th Annual Pioneer Valley Book & Ephemera Fair on Sunday, October 18, 10am - 4pm at Smith Vocational School, 8
On Saturday at the Olympic Games in Rio, Matthew Centrowitz Jr won the first American gold in the 1500m since 1908.  Centrowitz's major accomplishment led me to wonder who was the last American to win that medal.  The answer to that bit of Olympic trivia, as it turns out, was Melvin W.…
For fans of detective fiction, Antipodean literature, book history, nineteenth-century theater, or all of the above, Lucy Sussex's new book, Blockbuster!: Fergus Hume & The Myst
Auctions
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Auctions
[ITHACA, NY] National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, announces the launch of their next auction catalog.