Fine Books News: Recent

Unfurling the Flag: Reflections on American Patriotism at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and…
A one-page signed autograph manuscript featuring Franz Schubert’s choral setting Das Grab has sold…
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Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney was a dedicated sender of Christmas cards and for more than 30 years produced his own.
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Highlights of Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books auction on December 10 include: * F.A. Somerville, Journal of H.M.S. Glory from November 1900 to April 1902, with 68 pen-and-ink and watercolor maps, track charts, and illustrations of the ship’s…
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The Ted Benttinen Library of Exploration and Adventure comes to auction next week featuring photographs by Frank Hurley who documented Shackleton's exploits in addition to a huge personal library of travel and exploration books.
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Firsts Hong Kong opens today and runs until December 8 at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, marking the incorporation of the former China in Print fair into the Firsts stable.
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The Bodleian Libraries’ new exhibition Oracles, Omens and Answers opens tomorrow, exploring a wide range of historic divination techniques form astrology and palm reading to weather and public health forecasting.Running through April 27, 2025
, at the Weston Gallery in Oxford highlights include:
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A single page from Ayn Rand’s handwritten first draft of her final novel Atlas Shrugged comes to auction at Doyle on December 6 in its Rare Books, Autographs & Maps auction.
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The 2024 iteration of the annual Panizzi Lectures take place at the British Library and online this month on the subject of Black Bibliography, Here and Now.
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A short inscription by the 14-year-old Franz Kafka which is the earliest piece of his writing known to exist will come to auction for the very first time at Bonhams' Fine Books & Manuscripts online sale running December 8 - 18.
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Novelist and editor of The Book Collector literary journal James Fleming has died after a sudden illness.The Book Collector was founded by James's uncle Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, in 1952. James became the proprietor in 2016 and editor two years later. In a statement, the editorial…
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Highlights from PBA Galleries' Fine Literature auction ending December 5 includes: * Eight signed broadside poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lenore Kandel Jack Hirschman, Janine Pommy Vega, Anne Waldman, ruth weiss, Diane di Prima, and Joanna McClure. Estimate: $500 - $800* A NOTE TO…