Fine Books News: Recent

Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac will explore the writer’s personal life from…
After its cancellation last year following the Los Angeles fires, the California International…
Current Events & Trends
The Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection sale at Christie's has realised a total of £4,627,224 from a variety of lots of books, art, and Dame Edna ephemera.
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A new exhibition commemorating the 700th anniversary of the oldest Spanish cookbook has opened at the University of Valencia in Spain.
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A new exhibition at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art explores the creativity of endpapers which have become an expanded artistic canvas in contemporary children’s publishing. 
Book Fairs
The Ephemera Society of America's flagship event next month will feature more than 10,000 items including advertisements, baseball cards, rare maps, playbills, banknotes, sheet music, luggage tags, and wood engravings.
Bright Young Collectors
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Emily Chauvin, an honorable mention in the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for women collectors aged 30 and younger:Where are you from / where do you live?
Auctions
Swann Galleries' February 13 Fine Photographs sale features a selection of 20th century images capturing urban, rural, and social settings.
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San Francisco Center for the Book has announced its second national mentorship award in book arts for Summer 2025 with experienced mentors Julie Chen and Zach Clark who are committed to nurturing the next generation of book artists.With the support of the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation, SFCB will be…
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Better on Paper is a new exhibition that celebrates some of the thousands of newly acquired and previously unseen works of art on paper including prints, drawings, photographs, books, and other objects, acquired by the Davis Museum and the Wellesley College Library Special Collections in…
Current Events & Trends
Here's what I'll be watching this week:At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, February 11, 200 lots of Fine Books & Ephemera.
Current Events & Trends
A rehearsal script headed “Final Version, December 3rd, 1947”, signed and dated by the author on the title page, “Tennessee Williams, 1975” is one of the highlights of Peter Harrington's latest catalogue So Much Like Life: The Performing Arts.