Fine Books News: Recent
This week's rare book of the week is the pocket book of Captain Henry D’Esterre Darby of HMS…
Indigenous picture book art, fiber books, and the influence of German art on illustrator Eric Carle…
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A new Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition and book will explore late 19th century American literary posters, a vibrant genre at the vanguard of modern commercial art and graphic design.The Art of the Literary Poster by Allison Rudnick will be published next month in association with the museum’s…
The Autographs sale next month at Swann Galleries will contain property from the Forbes Collection, reflecting a keen interest in American history, world leaders, American entertainers between the 1930s and 1960s, and writers.
Highlights from Peter Harrington’s new Poetry catalogue include: * A complete copy of Anne Bradstreet’s Several Poems Compiled with great Variety of Wit and Learning, full of Delight... By a Gentlewoman in New-England. Bradstreet is credited as “the first American to publish a book of poetry…
Getman’s Virtual Book Fairs has joined with viaLibri, the world’s largest marketplace for old, rare and, second-hand books, further expanding its reach of more than 160 independent and multi-seller websites worldwide.
An archive of very personal correspondence relating to the English writer Penelope Bennett (b.1932) comes for sale in London late this month. The cache of close to 400 letters and cards written in the early 1960s was discovered by the seller at an open-air antiques fair last year and has never…
Works from Tintin, Moebius, and Belgian creator André Franquin's Gaston Lagaffe will appear at Heritage Auctions' original art auction next month.
The Raab Collection has acquired and is offering for sale an original document signed by President Abraham Lincoln just four days before his assassination, among his final acts as President. The document was discovered in an antique desk, where it had been kept by the family of the previous…
Highlights from Potter & Potter's auction The Collection of Edwin A Dawes, Part I on February 24. Scholar, author, historian, professor, and magician, Edwin Dawes was the most prolific chronicler of conjuring history in the 20th century. This first offering from his collection features unique…
More than 1,000 white diamonds have been set into the custom fine binding of a first edition of Breakfast at Tiffany’s signed by Truman Capote which has been produced to celebrate the centenary of his birth.
At Brunk Auctions on Wednesday, February 21, The Great Outdoors: From Audubon to Zuni, in 190 lots. A first octavo edition of Audubon's Birds, complete but with a bit of damage, is expected to lead the sale at $20,000–30,000; there is also a full set of the 2006 Audubon's Fifty Best Watercolors,…
