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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

Auctions

A group of author-inscribed books from the personal home collection of David Lynch

Hundreds of Books from David Lynch's Private Library to Auction

William Blake Items Top Maurice Sendak Sale

Louisiana Purchase Portfolio on Display and to Auction

Book People

The Bone People

Collector Nicholas Royle Retraces the Journeys of His Books

Minnesota Center for Book Arts Announces 2025 McKnight Book Fellows

Lost Ian Fleming Short Story Published as Bond Memorabilia Comes to Auction

Rare Books

Hyakumantō Darani with wooden pagoda, storage box and facsimile text alongside a colour woodblock print of Horyuji Temple in Nara, Japan, where this particular darani was stored. Photo: Eugene Hyland.

World’s Oldest Example of Printed Text Unveiled at State Library Victoria

Greta Garbo Letters: Rare Book of the Week

Shelley's Baby Rattle, Homer's Iliad, and Jane Austen Juvenilia in New 'Treasured' Exhibition

Maps

A Complete Map of All Under Heaven by Cao Junyi

The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi’s ‘A Complete Map of All Under Heaven’

Maps & Atlases: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Maps of 18th Century Gardens: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Exhibitions

Front Line of Freedom San Francisco: Queer as a Three Dollar Bill, offset print, ca. 1981, by Ken Wood

Getty's New LGBTQ+ Exhibition Features Rare Books, Artists’ Books, and Archival Materials

The Art of Dress in Medieval Manuscripts

John Ashbery Drawings, Tarot, and 3,000 Years of Storytelling at the Morgan in 2026

Americana

Courtius, Klyn Loretten in Noord-America/Little Loretto, Kentucky, engraving, circa 1812

Americana: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Thomas Jefferson’s Cicero and J. D. Salinger Letter Lead University Archives Auction

Handwritten Manuscripts Related to Bonnie and Clyde, Jesse James and Buffalo Bill to Auction

Visual Art

From the Dahl 'Boy' archive

Roald Dahl's Sketches for 'Boy' at Lyon & Turnbull

Spider-Man Artwork Smashes Auction Record for Greg and Tim Hildebrandt

Cecil Beaton Designs for 'Anna Karenina' and Oscar Wilde Plays to Auction

Book Arts

LA Art Book Fair and NY Art Book Fair Dates

Bach Manuscript Inspires Bodleian Libraries Concert

New Exhibition of First Editions and Artworks Celebrates Edward Gorey Centenary

Photographs

Original portrait photograph of Lincoln seated with a book and his son Tad, taken February 9, 1864

Rare Photograph of Abraham Lincoln with Son Tad to Auction

Previouly Unseen Photograph of Sale of Charles Dickens's Belongings on Display

Only Known Photographs of Ada Lovelace to Auction: Estimate £120,000