Nevil Shute (1899-1960) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Val Biro, 1953; R, Miriam Woods, 1957 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Attention all AUPresses members: The 2026 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show is now open for your gorgeous and creative entries! View the Call for Entries on the AUPresses Design website and submit materials by January 12, 2026: design.up.hcommons.org/

There’s still time to visit the CCC African Collections Futures exhibition Bound Together: Leather from Northern Nigeria - open until 8 Feb at the Fitz! Read the Closing Thoughts by Balqiis Ali, the intern who worked with curator Dr Eva Namusoke on the display: www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/bound-t...

The Second Printing Revolution: Invention of Mass Media January 14 – April 11, 2026 www.grolierclub.org/Default.aspx...

Paul O. Williams (1935-2009) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Ruth Sanderson, 1981; R, Darrell K. Sweet, 1983 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Some stories earn their classic status the honest way, by breaking your heart a little and making you grateful for it. This week’s selection is Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White, with pictures by Garth Williams, published by Harper & Row. Melissa, Library Assistant tinyurl.com/6xkppktk

Our display on the Anatomy of Books is now up! We're celebrating the varied and interesting examples of book design that we have in our #SpecialCollections There are so many behind-the-scenes decisions that make the books we read everyday. Design, layout and even typeface all get carefully chosen 📖

19C librarians devised all manner of ingenious apparatus to make their institutions more efficient. Here’s a pioneering form of rolling stack to streamline storage systems at the British Museum, now the British Library. From the Library Chronicle, Vol. III (1886) #AlphabetChallenge #BforBooks 💙📚

Join us on Thursday, January 22 at 4 p.m. as we bid farewell to Elemental: Crafting Books from Nature. Please note that registration is required. Please register at forms.gle/XdHWNXM2TCVd.... For more information, or to view the exhibition online, visit americana.jcblibrary.org/exhibitions/....

the bookseller impulse to document early 20th century cloth hardcover design

This 1526 New Testament from Willem Vorsterman shows how centuries of wear tell the story. The parchment binding has moved & tightened so much over time that the bookblock barely fits the cover anymore. /1 #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

Janny Wurts' cover art detail for the 1983 edition of Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron (serialized 1967, novel 1969) #scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBForBooks I do love a good NT library! Nymans, West Sussex, Standen House, West Sussex, Antony, Cornwall & Kingston Lacy, Dorset 📚

Robert Silverberg (1935-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Colin Hay, 1978; R, Stan Mack, 1958 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

We are hosting an amazing short course at Shrewsbury School about English Bookbindings with Dr David Pearson 24-27 March 2026. Find out more here: buff.ly/LUQw4TX #Bookbindings #RareBooks

A look at some of the most beautiful and unusual examples from the first 100 years of the "modern" book cover, since the rise of publishers' bindings circa 1820: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-book-covers-1820-1914

A question on vellum. We have a book that's covered in reused parchment (an old property title), but it's unlike the parchment we usually see on books: coarse, like it wasn't completely scraped. Does this have a specific name? I thought it was leather at first, but then I noticed the writing.

Joseph Green (1931-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, uncredited, 1975; R, Boris Vallejo, 1978 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

The Bibelots were a decorative series of mini classics published in early 1900s. 'Leaves from Pepys' Diary' of 1910 (PEPYS 483) contains a collection of quotes from Samuel Pepys Diary under headings such as Observances, Dress, Sports & Pastimes - making the book accessible & affordable to many. 📖

Notable YA Covers of 2025 - this really is a post for fans of illustrated book covers: www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2026/01... #books #illustration #YA

Rare Book School Unveils Summer 2026 Course Schedule www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

Richard Adams’s first three novels - Watership Down (1972), Shardik (1974) and The Plague Dogs (1977) - in Penguin 1970s paperbacks. Lovely title page for The Plague Dogs. Cover art credits in ALT text.

The first paperback edition of Watership Down, published by Puffin, with the Baynes' cover art unedited. The 1972 publication was by Rex Collings.

The Second Printing Revolution: Invention of Mass Media January 14 – April 11, 2026 www.grolierclub.org/Default.aspx...

Artist Peter Elson (1947-1998) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, 1977; R, 1976 #scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist #books

Jan Tschichold, Redrawings of the Penguin logos, 1947 Scanned from Pioneers of German Graphic Design, Callisto Publishers GmbH, 2017 #jantschichold #penguinbooks

Jan Tschichold, Design standards for the King Penguin series, 1948 Scanned from Pioneers of German Graphic Design, Callisto Publishers GmbH, 2017 #penguinbooks #jantschichold

I loved watching this quick video recap of how Penguin designer Elisha Zepeda made the book covers for 10 books that came out in 2025. Zepeda has a much longer look at his process on YT. [instagram.com]

James Joyce sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/joyce_... died on this day, so here's the cover and two interior illustrations to the Folio Society edition of 'Finnegans Wake' (artist: John Vernon Lord), plus the cover of Mary Manning's "A Free Adaption for the Theater" of the same work (don't know artist):

We are so excited for this lead-off event to the festival with @eve.gd and @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social! It's a bit early to grab your popcorn, but definitely put it in your calendar 📆

National Trust to Encourage Visitors to Use Its Historic Libraries www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

Here's my look back at some of the YA book covers that caught my eye last year. There's a ton of great art and illustration - particularly fantasy and horror - if that's your thing... www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2026/01...

Ron Goulart sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/goular... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: 1 José de Huescar, 2-4 Josh Kirby):

Joy Chant (1945-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Bob Pepper, 1971; R, Steve Weston, 1983 #books #fantasy

I’m teaching the history of book collecting at London Rare Book School this summer. It will be fun! 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

Today (12th January) marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Dame Agatha Christie; mystery writer, playwright, plotting genius, creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple AND THE BESTSELLING NOVELIST OF ALL TIME. If you've never read her, the time is now. #ReadChristie2026

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBForBooks Virginia Woolf’s collection of Shakespeare, all wrapped & inscribed by her own hand, in her bedroom at Monk’s House, Rodmell, East Sussex 📚

"No deposit, no return" suggests this book review. But who knows? Flight of Time by Paul Capon. 1961, cover art signed Leslie Wood. #booksky

Zach Hughes sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hughes... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Gene Szafran, Steve R Dodd, Richard Powers and Karel Thole):

Zach Hughes (1928-2016) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Ken Kelly, 1980; R, uncredited (looks like Eddie Jones), 1980 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Jack London (1876-1916) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, uncredited, 1971; R, uncredited, 1976 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Vadim Shefner (1915-2002) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Richard Powers, 1980; R, Richard Powers, 1979 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

#alphabetchallenge #weekBforBooks The top shelf ....

Robert Anton Wilson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wilson... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: [couldn't identify],[couldn't identify], Carlos Victor and Carlos Victor):

Ambrose Bierce sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bierce... died on this day [or thereabouts], so here's some of his book covers and a piece of interior art (Artist: Jean-Michel Nicollet, Philippe Druillet, Mariano Fernández de Henestrosa Cagiga and Santiago Caruso)

George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, David Heffernan, 1982; R, Fernando Fernandez, 1973 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Two lesser known books today, both illustrated by Ronald Lampitt (1972)

Many A Monster by Robert Finnegan (Paul William Ryan) (Simon And Schuster, 1948). Cover Art by H. Lawrence Hoffman. #ManyAMonster #RobertFinnegan #1940s #book #books #coverart #cover #artwork #SimonAndSchuster #crime #MYSTERY #thrillers #thriller #thrillerbooks #HLawrenceHoffman #hardback #hardcover

This book review acknowledges the team is ready, "all systems go, ready for liftoff!" Journey Into Space by Charles Chilton. 1958, cover art by Gordon C. Davies. #booksky