Rainy Day Books

Book Arts

Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet Becomes Interactive AI Avatar

Ptolemy’s 'Geographia': Rare Book of the Week

Incline Press Launch New Letterpress Edition of 'The Tragical Comedy of Punch & Judy'

Sponsored

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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

Martin Luther letter on debt

Martin Luther Letter, Oscar Wilde Photograph, and Malcolm X Prison Archive to Auction

Toulouse-Lautrec Posters, African Glaciers, Book of Mormon: Auction Preview

Near Complete DC Comics Collection to Auction

Visual Art

Vanessa Bell, The Party or Mrs Dalloway's Party

Bloomsbury Group Celebrated in New Exhibition Including Rarely Seen Virginia Woolf Gift

The Story of 'Free to Be...You and Me' Celebrated in New Exhibition

Warburg Institute To Reopen Next Month After £14.5m Transformation

Americana

The constitution archetype at Brunk

Rare Printed Archetype of the United States Constitution to Auction

Alexander Hamilton’s Signed Copy of Washington’s Rules of Neutrality, Made Famous in Hamilton Musical, for Sale

National Archives Launches Declaration of Independence 'Declaration250' Campaign

Rare Books

Oliver Sacks at the NYPL in 2011

New York Public Library Acquires Archive of Oliver Sacks

The Adventures of Tintin, King Ottokar’s Sceptre: Rare Book of the Week

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Freize Masters 2024

Book People

Nubia Lateefa

The People's Porch Curator Nubia Lateefa on Collecting Rare Black Literature

Elizabeth Gaskell’s House Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary

Rare Book School Receives $3.1m Donation, Largest In Its History

Exhibitions

Ben Blount, Passportal, 2024, letterpress printed from wood type and polymer plates, edition of 10. Commissioned by Cynthia Sears Artists' Books Collection

New Artists’ Books Exhibition Reimagines the Passport

Chapbooks and Pantomime Ephemera Tell Story of Dick Whittington in New Exhibition

National Archives to Add 19th Amendment to Permanent ‘Charters of Freedom’ Display

Photographs

Pre-Civil War Photograph

Historic Pre-Civil War Photograph of an Interracial Couple to Auction

New York Photographs and Posters in 400th City Anniversary Auction

Photographs by Paul Strand, Tina Modotti, and Hal Gould Go Under the Hammer

Maps

Unpublished annotated Proof of Harry Beck’s 1933 first edition tube map, with corrections and proposals in Becks own hand

Rare London Underground Maps in New Exhibition and Sale

World War II Maps of Service and Sacrifice

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Maps