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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Highlights of Potter & Potter's The Collection of Edwin A. Dawes Part IV auction, the fourth and final sale from the Dawes collection, include: Edwin Dawes' collection of booklets and lecture notesApproximately 100 thin magic booklets and two boxes of lecture notes, spanning the 20th…
The Ticknor Society in the greater Boston area will begin accepting submissions starting March 1, 2026, for the Sixth Annual George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting Prize.
A sale of rare cricket books, memorabilia, and artworks from one of the sport’s most respected collectors will go under the hammer on October 28 at Chorley's' 'The Cricket Auction: The Collection of Christopher Saunders'.
The printing press used to launch Chile’s first politically crusading newspaper has gone on display at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia as part of its special The Declaration’s Journey exhibition.Running through January 3, 2027, The Declaration’s Journey looks into the stories…
The ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair will return to Chelsea Old Town Hall on October 31 and November 1. The fair brings together exhibitors specialising in rare books, first editions, maps, prints, manuscripts and ephemera from all over the world with a wide range of prices.Highlights include:…
The literary papers of New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson will join those of Octavia E. Butler, Hilary Mantel, and Thomas Pynchon at The Huntington.
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Rhiannon Knol, a bookseller with Bruce McKittrick Rare Books in Pennsylvania:How did you get started in rare books?
Highlights from Peter Harrington’s new catalogue The Business of Travel include: * The Bisset Archive
This week's Rare Book of the Week is an album of letters written by Kurt Vonnegut which he kept carbon copies of and which comes up for auction at Swann Galleries on October 23.
Here's what I'll be keeping an eye on over the next several weeks:
