Fine Books News: Recent
New York-based rare book antiquarian Richard C. Ramer (1942-2026) has died after running his…
Sotheby’s in New York has sold the rare Rothschild Vienna Mahzor Hebrew prayerbook for $6…
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At Bonhams Skinner on Tuesday, October 31, 41 lots of Fine Books & Rare Manuscripts, including a German copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493), expected to sell for $50,000–75,000; and John Ledyard's Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage (1783), with the complete map, also estimated at $50,000–…
A fragment of John Steinbeck’s original handwritten draft of Of Mice and Men, which was eaten/destroyed by his dog Toby in 1936, has sold for $13,000, more than six times its estimate. In the same Bonhams auction, Steinbeck's wrought-iron sword which he presented to his sister Mary…
Organisers of a new exhibition to open next month at the Charles Dickens Museum are hunting for novelist Wilkie Collins' honest appraisal of his friend Charles Dickens' novels.Mutual Friends: The Adventures of Charles Dickens & Wilkie Collins opens next month at the museum, Dickens' former home…
Printed Matter has announced its Sunday Zine Fair, a special day-long event held on November 19 on the occasion of the Brooklyn Museum’s expansive survey exhibition on artists’ zines Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines. The Fair will convene more than 60 exhibitors in the…
Incline Press has launched Gifts of the Magi, a collection of new poems by Jamie McKendrick. Winner of numerous national and international writing prizes, this is their second collaboration (following the tri-lingual chapbook, The Hunters, in 2015) as they hope to mark the approaching season…
Highlights from Peter Harrington's recent catalogue Friends on the Other Side: Journeys in the Occult include:* Gerald B. Gardner, The Meaning of Witchcraft. London: The Aquarian Press, 1959
A never-before-seen photo of soldiers leaving Northern Ireland to fight in World War One and a serviceman’s diary from the trenches will go under the hammer at Hansons Auctioneers’ WW1 Auction on November 7.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues with Jalynn Harris who won second prize in this year's David Ruggles Book Collecting Contest for young collectors of color.Where are you from / where do you live?I was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland and currently still live here.What did you…
The J. Paul Getty Museum's new exhibition William Blake: Visionary features over 100 striking works by English printmaker, painter, and poet, William Blake. On view at the Getty Center through January 14, 2024, this is the first major international loan exhibition of Blake’s work on the West Coast.
London Transport Museum in Covent Garden has opened its new Global Poster Gallery, its first permanent gallery dedicated to the history of poster art and design.The museum cares for one of the world’s largest collections of 20th century graphic art and design, with around 1,000 original poster…
