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Carpetbagger Books

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

132 Cass St.

Woodstock, IL 60098

carpetbaggerbooks.com

willy@carpetbaggerbooks.com

Specializing in modern first editions of literature, science fiction, and mystery/detective fiction.

Visual Art

From Superman #75

Original Art from 'The Death of Superman' to Auction

A Chicana Printmaker’s Radical Archive

Matisse’s Late-Career Cut-Outs Show an Artist Overcoming Limitations

Exhibitions

Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects: Religious and Moral (London: Printed for A. Bell, Bookseller, Aldgate; and Sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773)

Princeton Hosts Two Exhibitions Marking Nation’s 250th Anniversary

Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press at Charleston

New Exhibition Focuses on The Irish Literary Revival

Book Arts

Miami Zine Fair 2025

Miami Zine Fair 2026 Details

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’

Rare Books

Repetición de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez by Luis Ramírez de Lucena

Oldest Surviving Book on Chess to Auction with £100,000 Estimate

Grabhorn Press 'Leaves of Grass': Rare Book of the Week

Sacred Hindu Shikshapatri Text On Tour to Mark Bicentenary

Maps

London in the 18th Century

New Book Focuses on Historic First Detailed Map of 18th Century London

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Americana

Clemens business card

Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln Memorabilia to Auction

Post-Washita General Custer Letter Sold at Auction for $550,000

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

Auctions

Nelson's Order of Battle for Trafalgar

Horatio Nelson's Trafalgar Order of Battle Sold for $189,888 at Auction

Virginia Woolf Letter Dismissing Her Work to Auction

Queen Elizabeth I Letter, Stuyvesant Land Grant, and Jefferson–Madison Appointment to Auction

Book People

Penelope Jencks' statue of Margaret Fuller in situ pre-restoration

Life-Size Bronze Sculpture of Margaret Fuller Donated to Concord Free Public Library

Her Majesty The Queen to Appear in New BBC Programme on Power of Books

Final Antiquariaat Junk Stock Sold at Auction for £1m+

Photographs

Edward Steichen’s Balzac, The Open Sky, 11 P.M. (1908) (estimate: $700,000–$1m)

Edward Steichen’s 'Balzac' Leads Photography Masterworks Auction

Cartes de Visite: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Photography Collection of Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner to Auction

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