Fine Books News: Recent

The Morgan Library & Museum's Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling will…
The J. Paul Getty Museum will open its Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages…
The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded, by Jim Ottaviani, illustrated by Leland Purvis; Abrams ComicArts, $24.99, 240 pages. (March 22, 2016)
News
The Rosa Parks Collection at the Library of Congress has been digitized and is now online. The collection, which contains approximately 7,500 manuscripts and 2,500 photographs, is on loan to the Library for 10 years from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. The Library received the materials in late…
British novelist Neil Griffiths has pledged £2,000 for a new award to support literature published by small presses in Britain and Ireland.  Griffiths hopes to attract similar investments from other literary authors in an attempt to celebrate "small presses producing brilliant and brave…
Auctions
DALLAS - A copy of Amazing Fantasy #15, the 1962 first appearance of Spider-man, sold at Heritage Auct
Recently, the Penguin Collectors Society published Penguin Scribe, a slim volume of collected articles by Steve Hare (1950-2015), who
Exhibit
The Royal Game of the Goose is one of the earliest printed board games, going back to the Middle Ages—and one of the simplest: just roll the dice and move along i
Auctions
YORK, Pa. - The race for the White House, with all its hoopla and historical tradition, is now in full swing.
News
(Amherst, MA — February 23, 2016) The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) today announced that The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is among the 30 finalists for the 2016 National Medal for Museum and Library Service. The National Medal is the nation’s highest honor given to…
News
On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 the Proprietors of the Boston Athenæum elected John S. Reed as the 23rd President in the institution’s 209-year history. Reed succeeds Deborah Hill Bornheimer, who served for six years as President and a total of 16 years as a Trustee. The Proprietors also elected…
Events
The Morbid Anatomy Museum is thrilled to announce the second annual Morbid Anatomy Museum Gala taking place April 12th, 2016 at The Bell House.