Fine Books News: Recent
Unfurling the Flag: Reflections on American Patriotism at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and…
A one-page signed autograph manuscript featuring Franz Schubert’s choral setting Das Grab has sold…
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The Kelmscott Press edition of William Morris’s The Story of the Glittering Plain, or the Land of Living Men is among the headliners in PBA Galleries' Rare Books, Manuscripts and More sale today. As well as being an influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien its typography, paper and binding…
The Portuguese Salão do Livro Antigo antiquarian book fair returns for its second edition at the Municipal House of Culture in Coimbra this week November 6- 9.
Swann Galleries' November 6 Autographs auction features Florence Nightingale, Marie Curie, John Lennon, Thomas Jefferson, and Mark Twain, as well as manuscripts by John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman and George Sand.
Auction house Freeman’s | Hindman has rebranded the company under the name Freeman’s timed to coincide with the 220th anniversary of its founding in November 1805 when Tristram B. Freeman was appointed auctioneer for the City of Philadelphia by the governor of Pennsylvania.
Hot off the press is Remarkable Renaissance Books by John Boardley which focuses on 18 early printed volumes from Gutenberg's Bible to the early 18th century.
Highlights of Forum Auctions' online sale The Pity of War, The First World War in words and images on November 6 include:Late Lyrics and Earlier by Thomas Hardy
The National Library of Scotland is holding a pop-up display of Frankenstein-related material on November 7 to coincide with the release of Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel on Netflix.
Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on:
A 1939 Superman No. 1 will headline Heritage Auctions' Comic Books sale later this month with expectations that it will break comic book records.It was uncovered by three Northern California brothers looking through their late mother’s belongings in their family home during the holiday season last…
The management team of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration has confirmed that it will open its doors to the public in Clerkenwell, London, in May next year.
