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…
Exhibit
Andrew Edlin Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition World Made By Hand, featuring 70 artists engaged in the medium of drawing. Devoid of dependence on any form of technology, these works depict imagery that is primarily derived from nature and the minds of its creators. Free from overt…
Archaeologists may have uncovered the bones of the woman who inspired Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
The news that Italian scholar and author Umberto Eco died last week at the age of 84 hit bibliophiles particularly hard, for not only was he one of us--a rapacious reader and book collector said to own as many as 50,000 volumes--but he also penned The Name of the Rose, the much beloved 1980 mystery…
As book lovers, we were saddened to learn that Harper Lee died last week at the age of 89.
Auctions
New York— On Tuesday, March 8, Swann Galleries will offer 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, featuring works by recognizable European masters and prominent American printmakers.
Current Events & Trends
If the 1984 Academy-Award winning film Amadeus is to be believed, Italian court composer Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) played bitter rival to petulant boy-genius Wolfgang Mozart (1756-1791), so consumed by jealousy that he even conspired to poison the young prodigy. In reality, the men were more than…
Bright Young Librarians
Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Nora Epstein, a Special Collections & Archives Librarian with DePaul University in Chicago:
One man's trash is another man's treasure. We've all heard the saying, and in this case, it's quite literal.
Book Fairs
St. Louis, MO (February 2016) - With millions of books spanning over 150 categories, the Annual Greater St. Louis Book Fair (April 28-May 1) will once again offer volumes of great reads and bargains for book lovers and collectors across the St. Louis region and nationwide.  One of the oldest…
Book Fairs
Greenwich, CT, February 15, 2016 - Mark your calendar for what will undoubtedly be the finest celebration of all things ephemera in North America this year!