Alberta's Books

Visual Art

Cover of Action Comics No. 21 drawn by Joe Shuster

Original Joe Shuster Action Comics Cover Art and Frank Frazetta Artwork to Auction

Rediscovered Original 'The Jungle Book' Illustrations to Auction

War Posters: Five Rare Posters for Collectors

Book People

Some of the Haud Nominandum items that will now be made accessible

Future of Priceless 'Haud Nominandum' LGBTQ+ Collection Secured

Food Writer Nicola Miller on Collecting Cookbooks

Hard Case Crime Releases Out-of-Print Joyce Carol Oates Thrillers

Maps

WWII Operation Bigot map

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Photographs

Mom at Work (detail) from Family Pictures and Stories, 1978–1984, Carrie Mae Weems. Gelatin silver print.

Getty Museum Focuses on Photography and the Black Arts Movement

'Brassaï’s Secret Paris' Opens at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York

Collector Jaeden Yoshikawa on Real Photo Post Cards and Lovers' Locations

Book Arts

Antony Gormley's Tree for Waiting for Godot on an upland bog in the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark Co. Fermanagh at the July 2019 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Rare Books

Gil Evans' arrangement for Miles Davis of Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquín Rodrigo

Gil Evans's Jazz Archive Acquired by Library of Congress

Women Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Firsts London 2026 Theme is 'Revolution'

Auctions

The last photo of Oscar Wilde on his death bed

£279,800 Death Bed Photo Tops Oscar Wilde Sale

Official Invitations From 1896 Athens Olympics to Auction

Mark Twain: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Exhibitions

Anwar E Suhaili, The Fables of Pilpay

Fairy Tales Celebrated in Major New Exhibition

New Huntington Library Exhibition Celebrates Links Between Land and American History

Unpublished Charles Dickens Fan Letter Opens New Exhibition on Women in His Life

Americana

William P. Dole's Railroad Pass to Travel to Gettysburg on November 18, 1863 and Gettysburg Marshal's Ticket Dated November 19

Gettysburg Rail Pass and Lincoln's Last Message to Congress to Auction

Mysterious George Washington Historical Document Surfaces for Presidents Day

Louisiana Purchase Signed Documents Sold for $82,394 at RR Auction