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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Rare Book School at the University of Virginia has now made available recordings of talks from its Summer 2025 Lecture Series. A Parallel History of Books and Blooks with Mindell Dubansky, Conservator, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of ArtWatch on YouTubeListen on SoundCloud
The Strand Magazine today releases in its issue 76 the previously unpublished Raymond Chandler manuscript Nightmare that has remained unseen for decades.
The Huntington will become the permanent home of the L.A. Louver Archive & Library which will preserve more than five decades of documentation related to Southern California contemporary art and cultural history. “The L.A. Louver Archive & Library expands our ability to tell the story…
A first edition of The Lord of the Rings signed by JRR Tolkien in Elvish Tengwar script will go under the hammer at Forum Auctions' Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper sale on September 25.
Christie's will hold its Photographs online sale from September 25 through October 10 featuring items such as rare vintage prints by Edward Weston, Tina Modotti and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, post-war photographs by Diane Arbus, Peter Beard, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, and contemporary highlights by…
Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on:
A tiny Qur’an displayed in a dolls’ house for many years will go under the hammer at at Hansons Auctioneers on September 27 with an estimate of £2,000-£3,000.An octagonal book with 16 lines of text per page - some encased in a gold border - over 300 pages dates from the late 18th to early 19th…
Amsterdam's Fine & Rare Book Fair opens at the city's historic Zuiderkerk church on September 27, running through September 28. Organised by the Nederlandsche Vereeniging van Antiquaren (Dutch Association of Antiquarian Booksellers), more than 40 dealers from around Europe will offer a…
Western County Histories including the scarce Yolo county history from 1879, early California promotional pamphlets, Mormon material, and Zane Grey angling tales all feature in PBA Galleries' Western Americana with Gold Rushers, God-Fearers, Gunslingers and Anglers sale on September 25.Highlights…
Muhammad Ali's draft card which was issued the day the Louisville Kentucky Draft Board ordered him to appear for induction will go under the hammer at a single-lot online auction at Christie's running October 10-28, and with an estimate of $3m-$5m.
