Rare Books, Book Collection, Manuscripts and Old Maps

The Dune Bible, estimate £250,000 - £350,000

Dune Bible and Jurassic Park Cover Art Lead Christie's Science Fiction and Fantasy Auction

Andreas Cellarius’ Harmonia macrocosmica after conservation

Rare 17th Century ‘Star Atlas’ from Golden Age of Dutch Mapmaking On Display For First Time

Captain Maxwell H. Coote, Winston Churchill, Sir Herbert Samuel, Sir Ronald Storrs in British Cemetery, Jerusalem, 1921

Asala Collection of Middle East Photographs: Rare Book of the Week

The inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments

Oldest Inscribed Tablet of the Ten Commandments to Auction

Leaf from Valentina Tereshkova's ground practice journal

Early Hemingway, Mars Globe, Tereshkova Notebook: Auction Preview

From the Pages of Fine Books & Collections

This map was used in the Union Depot train station in El Paso, Texas, and has signatures and unit patches from soldiers who passed through. It’s now on view at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.

World War II Maps of Service and Sacrifice

On the day after Christmas, 1944, ball turret gunner Kenje Ogata found himself in the...

Tim Youd retyping Carson McCullers’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter at the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians in Columbus, Georgia, in May 2024.

Tim Youd's Quest to Read Closely by Retyping 100 Novels

Artist Tim Youd’s intention to become a better reader goes to extremes, and typewriters...

Historian Emily Cockayne’s cover embroideries that she is making for a book quilt include Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work.

Stories in Stitchery as a Reading List Becomes a Quilt

When most of us finish a book we’ve enjoyed, we might make a note in a journal, post...

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Travelling library chest of John Bell's editions of British poetry and theater

Superman, Schiller's Collection, Christina Rossetti Letters: Auction Preview

Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:

Inside page of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Notebook

Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Notebook: Rare Book of the Week

Mario Puzo’s copy of Francis Ford Coppola’s

Rare Books Advent Calendar

Richard Blome, ‘The Present State of His Majesties Isles and Territories of America’ (Detail) – Sold for £3,000

Spiritual Instruction Manual Leads Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale

Rare Son of Frankenstein, Disney, and Orson Welles’ Macbeth Posters to Auction

Nature Writer Ronald Blythe's 15th Century Former Home to Become Writers' Retreat

Raymond Chandler's Typewriter, Scarf, and Unpublished Fantasy Stories to Auction

$80,000 Estimate for Lewis Carroll’s Hand-Colored Photograph of Alice Liddell

Earliest Color Illustrated Manuscript of A Visit from St. Nicholas Acquired by The Morgan

John Lydon's Handwritten Sex Pistols Lyrics Sold for $82,638

Spotlight on The Watsons Documentary Explores Jane Austen's Abandoned Novel

200 Copies of Mao Zedong's Little Red Book: Rare Book of the Week

Cookery Manuscripts, Fishing Classics, Indian Miniatures: Auction Preview

Dune Bible and Jurassic Park Cover Art Lead Christie's Science Fiction and Fantasy Auction

Elizabeth Gaskell’s House Announces  Inaugural Writers Residency

New Facsimile Edition of William Blake’s Notebook Published

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Kurt Gippert Bookseller

2898 N. Milwaukee Ave. [by appointment only]

Chicago, IL 60618

(773) 583-7613

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Windy Hill Books

P.O. Box 80

Bacova, VA 24412

dana@finebks.com

Out of print and collectible books, established 1993

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

The Insomniac Bookshop

Vintage Paperbacks, First Editions & Collectible Literature including SciFi, (more)

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

Bearly Read Books

320 Boston Post Road (RT20)

Sudbury, MA 01776

(978) 443-3034

Americana

Raymond Chandler’s Olivetti Studio 44 typewriter

Raymond Chandler's Typewriter, Scarf, and Unpublished Fantasy Stories to Auction

Gold Rush Letters and Diaries Lead Swann's Americana Auction

'Over the Rainbow' Song Contract and Mervyn LeRoy's Script for 'The Wizard of Oz' to Auction

Photographs

Cartier-Bresson's New Orleans, Louisiana, 1947

Cartier-Bresson and Chris Killip Lead Auction of Eric Franck’s Photography Collection

Asala Collection of Middle East Photographs: Rare Book of the Week

Photos of Truman Capote and Joan Didion in Major Irving Penn Retrospective

Exhibitions

Kings Library tower in the British Library

16th Century Gardening Manual, Secret War Maps, and Football Fanzines in British Library's 2025 Exhibitions

David King’s Small Press Publications and Zines Celebrated in New Exhibition

Bodleian Libraries’ Kafka Archive Debuts in the US

Rare Books

Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Notebook: Rare Book of the Week

Rare Books Advent Calendar

Earliest Color Illustrated Manuscript of 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' Acquired by The Morgan

Book People

Nature Writer Ronald Blythe's 15th Century Former Home to Become Writers' Retreat

Elizabeth Gaskell’s House Announces  Inaugural Writers Residency

Book Curses, Literary Tourism, and Academic Spies: November Books Roundup

Auctions

Superman, Schiller's Collection, Christina Rossetti Letters: Auction Preview

Spiritual Instruction Manual Leads Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale

$80,000 Estimate for Lewis Carroll’s Hand-Colored Photograph of Alice Liddell

Book Arts

Dr Seuss's Blue Green Abelard to Auction

Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet Becomes Interactive AI Avatar

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

Visual Art

Rare ‘Son of Frankenstein’, Disney, and Orson Welles’ 'Macbeth' Posters to Auction

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Vintage Posters

Earliest Engravings by William Blake Uncovered Using New Scanning Technology

Maps

Rare 17th Century ‘Star Atlas’ from Golden Age of Dutch Mapmaking On Display For First Time

Bay of Pigs Map Signed and Annotated by Fidel Castro to Auction

Andreas Bureus' Rare Map of Nordic Countries Goes Under the Hammer

Dune Bible and Jurassic Park Cover Art Lead Christie's Science Fiction and Fantasy Auction

Rare 17th Century ‘Star Atlas’ from Golden Age of Dutch Mapmaking On Display For First Time

Asala Collection of Middle East Photographs: Rare Book of the Week

Oldest Inscribed Tablet of the Ten Commandments to Auction

Early Hemingway, Mars Globe, Tereshkova Notebook: Auction Preview

World War II Maps of Service and Sacrifice

Tim Youd's Quest to Read Closely by Retyping 100 Novels

Stories in Stitchery as a Reading List Becomes a Quilt

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