E Ridge Fine Books

Book People

Daphne du Maurier's typewriter

Daphne du Maurier's Typewriter to Auction

Sandars Lectures 2025 Focus on Buying and Selling Archives

Bright Young Collectors: Kirin Gupta

Book Arts

The six shortlisted novels for the Booker Prize in their special bindings

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Printing Press That Aided Chilean Independence Goes on Show

Antique Bookcases: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Rare Books

The Chelsea Bindery catalogue from Peter Harrington

The Chelsea Bindery Celebrates 25 Years With a Special Anniversary Catalogue

£1m Auction Estimate for 10th Century Gospel Written by German Canonesses

Is This the World’s Most Valuable Comic Book?

Photographs

The newly acquired unrecorded photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unrecorded Photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Rare Photo of the Week

First Retrospective of Photographer Paddy Summerfield at the Bodleian

Never Seen Before Photographs of Iran’s Constitutional Revolution to Auction

Visual Art

Sydney Laurence, Rainier National Park/The New Yakima Gateway, 1932

Vintage Posters: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Turning Pages: Artists’ Books of the Present

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration to open in May 2026

Americana

Gene Cernan's Apollo 17 Lunar Surface Data Card

Gene Cernan’s Apollo 17 Lunar Module Data Card Book Sold for $73,219

Unpublished Raymond Chandler Manuscript 'Nightmare' Published by Strand Magazine

Western Americana to Auction at PBA Galleries

Auctions

The telegram from Paul McCartney to comedian Arthur Askey

Comedian Arthur Askey's Personal Library, Photos, and Scripts to Auction

Martin Luther, Chopin, Lincoln, and JFK Autograph Items to Auction

John Lennon Typescript, Greek Independence, and Robert de Montequiou: The Week in Rare Books

Exhibitions

Letter from Mary Shelley to Sir Walter Scott on the authorship of Frankenstein dated June 14, 1818

Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' Letter to Sir Walter Scott on Display For One Day Only

Illuminated Manuscripts Tell Story of Imperial Spanish Fashion

Rare Books and Photographs Tell Story of Middle Eastern and North African Immigration to New York

Maps

From The Story of the Glittering Plain

William Morris's 'The Story of the Glittering Plain' and Secunda Etas Mundi Map to Auction

New Exhibition Focuses on Secret Maps

The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin Explored in New Exhibition and Book

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale