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A quarterly magazine and daily updated website about rare books and collecting
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Swann Galleries
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Kurt Vonnegut was
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in 1922. See below an ALS from an archive of letters sold in November 2018
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Martin Luther, Chopin, Lincoln, and JFK Autograph Items to Auction
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Martin Luther, Chopin, Lincoln, and JFK Autograph Items to Auction
A religious reflection by Martin Luther, Frédéric Chopin’s signed publishing contracts, and a Civil War order from Abraham Lincoln are among the highlights at RR Auction’s Fine Autographs and Artifact...
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/martin-luther-chopin-lincoln-and-jfk-autograph-items-auction
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Sandars Lectures 2025 Focus on Buying and Selling Archives
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Sandars Lectures 2025 Focus on Buying and Selling Archives
This year's Sandars Lectures on how archives have been bought and sold over the last 50 years will begin tonight and continue tomorrow in-person and live-streamed.
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/sandars-lectures-2025-focus-buying-and-selling-archives
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Unrecorded Photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Rare Photo of the Week
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Unrecorded Photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Rare Photo of the Week
A hitherto unknown photograph of the 19th century essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson has been acquired by William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library in Massachusetts. It ...
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Booker Prize Bindings 2025
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Booker Prize Bindings 2025
The winner of the annual Booker Prize will be announced later today but all the shortlisted authors will receive a hand-bound edition of their own novel.This tradition of presenting each writer with a...
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/booker-prize-bindings-2025
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John Lennon Typescript, Greek Independence, and Robert de Montequiou: The Week in Rare Books
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John Lennon Typescript, Greek Independence, and Robert de Montequiou: The Week in Rare Books
This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections advisor specializing in rare books and manuscripts as well as fine photography and prints.
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/john-lennon-typescript-greek-independence-and-robert-de-montequiou-week-rare-books
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Emily Cockayne
4 days ago
Context help! I’m trying to fix a possible date on this papier mache snuff box. I *think* the words are “Playing at Hazar”. Anyone got any leads? I suspect the box is e19thc and possibly American.
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Allison C. Meier
4 days ago
Tell me your well loved book tales! I’m collecting options for our reader comments in the winter issue.
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Turning Pages: Artists’ Books of the Present
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Turning Pages: Artists’ Books of the Present
More than 300 artists' books and experimental publications have gone on show in the MAK’s Turning Pages: Artists’ Books of the Present exhibition in Vienna.
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The Chelsea Bindery Celebrates 25 Years With a Special Anniversary Catalogue
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The Chelsea Bindery Celebrates 25 Years With a Special Anniversary Catalogue
Peter Harrington is marking the 25th anniversary of its in-house fine bindery The Chelsea Bindery with the publication of a special catalogue showcasing 140 bindings.
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/chelsea-bindery-celebrates-25-years-special-anniversary-catalogue
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What is a well-worn book in your collection that may not be in the best condition but that you prize, and why?
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£1m Auction Estimate for 10th Century Gospel Written by German Canonesses
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£1m Auction Estimate for 10th Century Gospel Written by German Canonesses
A 1,000-year-old Latin Gospel manuscript believed to have been written by a community of women at Essen Abbey in Germany around the year 900 will come to auction next month at Christie's. The manuscri...
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/ps1m-auction-estimate-10th-century-gospel-written-german-canonesses
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George Sand, Walt Whitman, and John Steinbeck Signed Manuscripts to Auction
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George Sand, Walt Whitman, and John Steinbeck Signed Manuscripts to Auction
Swann Galleries' November 6 Autographs auction features Florence Nightingale, Marie Curie, John Lennon, Thomas Jefferson, and Mark Twain, as well as manuscripts by John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman and Geo...
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/george-sand-walt-whitman-and-john-steinbeck-signed-manuscripts-auction
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Salão do Livro Antigo Antiquarian Book Fair Returns in Portugal
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Salão do Livro Antigo Antiquarian Book Fair Returns in Portugal
The Portuguese Salão do Livro Antigo antiquarian book fair returns for its second edition at the Municipal House of Culture in Coimbra this week November 6- 9.
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/salao-do-livro-antigo-antiquarian-book-fair-returns-portugal
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Freeman’s | Hindman Rebrands as Freeman’s
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Freeman’s | Hindman Rebrands as Freeman’s
Auction house Freeman’s | Hindman has rebranded the company under the name Freeman’s timed to coincide with the 220th anniversary of its founding in November 1805 when Tristram B. Freeman was appoint...
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Letter to Sir Walter Scott on Display For One Day Only
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Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' Letter to Sir Walter Scott on Display For One Day Only
The National Library of Scotland is holding a pop-up display of Frankenstein-related material on November 7 to coincide with the release of Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel on N...
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The First World War: Five Rare Books for Collectors
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The First World War: Five Rare Books for Collectors
Highlights of Forum Auctions' online sale The Pity of War, The First World War in words and images on November 6 include:Late Lyrics and Earlier by Thomas Hardy
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/first-world-war-five-rare-books-collectors
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Remarkable Renaissance Books: Book of the Week
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'Remarkable Renaissance Books': Book of the Week
Hot off the press is Remarkable Renaissance Books by John Boardley which focuses on 18 early printed volumes from Gutenberg's Bible to the early 18th century.
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/remarkable-renaissance-books-book-week
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RJ Andrews
8 days ago
Our
visionarypress.com
books celebrating information graphics will be in their library!
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Is This the World’s Most Valuable Comic Book?
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Is This the World’s Most Valuable Comic Book?
A 1939 Superman No. 1 will headline Heritage Auctions' Comic Books sale later this month with expectations that it will break comic book records.It was uncovered by three Northern California brothers ...
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Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration to open in May 2026
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Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration to open in May 2026
The management team of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration has confirmed that it will open its doors to the public in Clerkenwell, London, in May next year.
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/quentin-blake-centre-illustration-open-may-2026
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Hemingway's First Book, Wilde's copy of Salomé, Schubert Manuscript: Auction Preview
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Hemingway's First Book, Wilde's copy of Salomé, Schubert Manuscript: Auction Preview
Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on:
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/hemingways-first-book-wildes-copy-salome-schubert-manuscript-auction-preview
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Illuminated Manuscripts Tell Story of Imperial Spanish Fashion
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Illuminated Manuscripts Tell Story of Imperial Spanish Fashion
An exhibition exploring the evolution of Spanish high fashion at the peak of Spain’s imperial power at The Hispanic Society Museum & Library opens next month in New York.Spanish Style: Fashion Illumi...
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/illuminated-manuscripts-tell-story-imperial-spanish-fashion
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Hilary Gerrard Collection of Burroughs and the Long Sixties Goes on Sale
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Hilary Gerrard Collection of Burroughs and the Long Sixties Goes on Sale
Shapero Rare Books is selling a major collection of ephemera from The Long 60s (1955-1975) assembled by Hilary Gerrard who was Ringo Starr's friend, financial advisor and business manager.Gerrard (193...
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/hilary-gerrard-collection-burroughs-and-long-sixties-goes-sale
11 days ago
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Orkney Library & Archive
11 days ago
Every year on
#Halloween
we carve a
#Pumpkin
from our collection of Penguin Books. 🎃 We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃
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Dr Eleanor Baker
11 days ago
If you like your Halloween served with a heaped helping of book history, may I recommend ✨Book Curses✨, whose pages are darkened by curses from antiquity to the present day. Come for particularised gory threats, stay for perceptions of the material text. Written by some woman.
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New Exhibition Focuses on Secret Maps
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New Exhibition Focuses on Secret Maps
The use of maps by governments as confidential tools of control is at the centre of a new exhibition at the British Library in London which also looks at mapping in the Where’s Waldo? books and world-...
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/new-exhibition-focuses-secret-maps
12 days ago
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Graphic Jane Austen, Punk Fanzines, and When Books Go Bad: October Books Roundup
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Graphic Jane Austen, Punk Fanzines, and When Books Go Bad: October Books Roundup
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.Cover Stories by Jamie Kamph Another fine volume from Oak Knoll Press, with Kamph looking at ...
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Pope Pius II's Erotic Novel to Auction
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Pope Pius II's Erotic Novel to Auction
The incunable erotic novel De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia by Pope Pius II will go under the hammer this weekend at Addison & Sarova Auctioneers.
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/pope-pius-iis-erotic-novel-auction
13 days ago
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One of the Earliest Known Musical Notations from Western Europe Uncovered
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One of the Earliest Known Musical Notations from Western Europe Uncovered
The Raab Collection has announced the discovery of perhaps the earliest known written examples of modern musical notations from Western Europe on a vellum manuscript leaf from a Latin Sacramentary.Non...
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/one-earliest-known-musical-notations-western-europe-uncovered
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Les Fleurs du Mal: Rare Book of the Week
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Les Fleurs du Mal: Rare Book of the Week
Going under the hammer later this week at Portuguese auction house ANNO is the uncensored first edition of Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire.
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/les-fleurs-du-mal-rare-book-week
15 days ago
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John Dee's Chaldaica Grammatica, Marilyn Monroe's ID, and Egon Schiele Collotypes: The Week in Rare Books
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John Dee's 'Chaldaica Grammatica', Marilyn Monroe's ID, and Egon Schiele Collotypes : The Week in Rare Books
This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections advisor specializing in rare books and manuscripts as well as fine photography and prints.
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/john-dees-chaldaica-grammatica-marilyn-monroes-id-and-egon-schiele-collotypes-week
15 days ago
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The Ticknor Society Book Collecting Prize 2026
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The Ticknor Society Book Collecting Prize 2026
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.
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/ticknor-society-book-collecting-prize-2026
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Magic Books: Five Rare Books for Collectors
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Magic Books: Five Rare Books for Collectors
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 notesApp...
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/magic-books-five-rare-books-collectors
18 days ago
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Printing Press That Aided Chilean Independence Goes on Show
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Printing Press That Aided Chilean Independence Goes on Show
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 Jo...
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/printing-press-aided-chilean-independence-goes-show
19 days ago
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Rare Cricket Books from the Christopher Saunders Collection to Auction
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Rare Cricket Books from the Christopher Saunders Collection to Auction
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 C...
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/rare-cricket-books-christopher-saunders-collection-auction
19 days ago
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The Huntington Acquires Papers and Personal Library of Kim Stanley Robinson
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The Huntington Acquires Papers and Personal Library of Kim Stanley Robinson
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.
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/huntington-acquires-papers-and-personal-library-kim-stanley-robinson
20 days ago
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Chelsea Rare Book Fair Returns
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Chelsea Rare Book Fair Returns
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, manuscri...
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/chelsea-rare-book-fair-returns
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The Business of Travel: Five Rare Books for Collectors
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The Business of Travel: Five Rare Books for Collectors
Highlights from Peter Harrington’s new catalogue The Business of Travel include: * The Bisset Archive
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21 days ago
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Bookseller Rhiannon Knol on Cataloging, Bookwomen, and Andreas Vesalius
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Bookseller Rhiannon Knol on Cataloging, Bookwomen, and Andreas Vesalius
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?
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/bookseller-rhiannon-knol-cataloging-bookwomen-and-andreas-vesalius
21 days ago
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Dr Laura Humphreys
22 days ago
A weird question for my museum collections nerds on a Monday: Human Hair in collections. Who's thinking about/ writing about/ discussing this? What hair have you got? How do you approach potential sensitivities? Please share far and wide!
#Museums
#Collections
#CulturalHeritage
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Gene Cernan’s Apollo 17 Lunar Module Data Card Book Sold for $73,219
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Gene Cernan’s Apollo 17 Lunar Module Data Card Book Sold for $73,219
A flight-certified Lunar Module (LM) Data Card Book used and annotated by Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan who was the last man to walk on the Moon has sold for $73,219 at RR Auction’s Space Exploratio...
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/gene-cernans-apollo-17-lunar-module-data-card-book-sold-73219
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Kurt Vonnegut's Album of Copies of Letters: Rare Book of the Week
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Kurt Vonnegut's Album of Copies of Letters: Rare Book of the Week
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.
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/kurt-vonneguts-album-copies-letters-rare-book-week
22 days ago
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Ali's Draft Card, Stirling Math Manuscripts, Picasso Artist Book: Auction Preview
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Ali's Draft Card, Stirling Math Manuscripts, Picasso Artist Book: Auction Preview
Here's what I'll be keeping an eye on over the next several weeks:
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/alis-draft-card-stirling-math-manuscripts-picasso-artist-book-auction-preview
22 days ago
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Alex Johnson
22 days ago
Nice shout out for When Books Go Bad from Kate in the latest of her regular video series Whats In The Box Mrs Harris (
www.instagram.com/p/DP64ahtCBZS/
) who runs the excellent Harris & Harris Books
harrisharris.co.uk
in Clare, Suffolk.
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Ilkley Book Fair
25 days ago
Lovely article in the
@lancasteruni.bsky.social
newspaper by Connie Hawley on the pleasures of book fairs, browsing physical books & meeting sellers in person. Ilkley Book Fair got a name-check and that's us in the picture too! (pic
@dbderbzbooks.bsky.social
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Book Fairs: Second-Hand Book Dealers and The PBFA -
For book-lovers everywhere, a second-hand book fair resembles a gold mine. The thrill of rummaging through boxes of books and scouring shelves for the perfect edition is incomparable, something many o...
https://scan.lancastersu.co.uk/2025/10/17/book-fairs-second-hand-book-dealers-and-the-pbfa/
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Alex Johnson
25 days ago
Some touching stories here.
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Fairies, Mermaids, and Wizards at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
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Fairies, Mermaids, and Wizards at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Sprites, Spells, and Splashes: Magical Beings in Picture Book Art at The Carle features more than 40 classic and contemporary works on view November 22 through April 26, 2026. “From the brownies of th...
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/fairies-mermaids-and-wizards-eric-carle-museum-picture-book-art
25 days ago
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Historic Columbus Letter Sells for $1.6m at Auction
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Historic Columbus Letter Sells for $1.6m at Auction
The Christie’s Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts auction including Americana totalled $5,410,327 with a copy of the earliest obtainable illustrated edition of Christopher Columbus’s 1493 letter annou...
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/historic-columbus-letter-sells-16m-auction
25 days ago
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Which Book on Your Shelves is Special to You Because of Provenance?
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Which Book on Your Shelves is Special to You Because of Provenance?
Is there a book in your library that is especially dear to you because of its provenance, either historical or personal?That was the question we asked subscribers to Fine Books & Collections and here ...
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/which-book-your-shelves-special-you-because-provenance
25 days ago
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