Fine Books News: Recent

Highlights of the Potter & Potter Houdiniana & Magic Memorabilia auction on April 18…
Highlights from the collection of rare book dealer, publisher, and collector David Aronovitz will…
Book Fairs
PARIS February — LES ENLUMINURES (www.lesenluminures.com) is exhibiting again this year at the renowned NEW YORK ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR April 11 - 14 at the Park Avenue (67th Street) Armory.
Well, it's that time of year in the antiquarian book world -- California is hopping with book fairs. Let's take a look at some of the highlights you can expect to see.
Recent Publications
The new edition of the ILAB Directory has recently been published. It contains all names, addresses and specialities of the ILAB dealers who are organized in 22 national associations and who are located in 32 countries all over the world.
Exhibit
American Little Magazines of the 1890s: A Revolution in Print At the Grolier Club February 20-April 27, 2013
How is your Mandarin?Fennigen de Shouling Ye, translates to Finnegans Wake, the title of the classic novel from 1939 by James Joyce.
Exhibit
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — February 2013 — Originally on view in the Library Company's Louise Lux-Sions and Harry Sions Gallery, Black Founders: The Free Black Community in the Early Republic has been reimagined as an online exhibition. Like its physical counterpart, this exhibition…
Auctions
An important collection of 37 albumen prints by Clemintina Maud, Lady Hawarden, a pair of pencil sketches of her and her husband, and 15 associated albumen prints (several possibly by Lady Hawarden), [c.1857-1864] will be sold at Bonhams on March 19 for an estimated £100,000-150,000. The sale of…
Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr.
Auctions
DALLAS — Montblanc’s Sir Winston Churchill  Limited Edition 53 fountain pen — featuring 18 karat pink gold, tortoiseshell bands and 53 diamonds — is expected to bring $25,000+ as part of a special offering of fine writing instruments in Heritage’s Gentleman Collector Auction event,…
Auctions
Bonhams is to sell a copy of the last and most famous stanza of For the Fallen which begins, “They shall grow not old”, handwritten by its author, Lawrence Binyon. It will feature in Part I of The Roy Davids Collection Part III:  Poetry: Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets at Bonhams…