1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (262+ words) Detail of Berlin Rare Book Fair 2026 poster In the year marking the 125th anniversary of Marlene Dietrich’s birth, Rare Books Berlin is dedicating a special exhibition to the artist in collaboration with the Deutsche Kinemathek Museum für Film und Fernsehen. Berlin…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (121+ words) These are the three lots that stuck out this week because of either uniqueness or exceeding expectations: Archive from Dr. Wakefield’s time working for the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen Even a dog enlists (c. 1917) Mildred T. Moody's…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (191+ words) Peter Firmin, original Noggin the Nog artwork in colour for the cover of The Saga of Noggin the Nog - book 1, monogrammed with title to lower margin More than 400 pieces of original artwork by illustrator Peter Firmin for some of the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (206+ words) Fine Books Magazine For book news, special columns, auction reports, events, and more. Tea Act, Peepshows, and Kubrick's Napoleon Script: The Week in Rare Books One of a collection of nine peepshows These are the three lots that stuck out…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (147+ words) Dream Days cover from the auction Items from the comprehensive Kenneth Grahame collection of rare book dealer David J. Holmes will go under the hammer at Swann Galleries' Illustration Art auction tomorrow (June 18). Described by the auction house as "the finest…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (118+ words) Items from the Living with Nature exhibition Living with Nature is the latest exhibition presented by Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books in Basel and explores the dialogue between humans and their natural environment through almost a millennium of manuscript production....

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (111+ words) 18th century Scottish scientist James Hutton’s Theory of Rain Rain is the subject of the National Library of Scotland’s forthcoming major exhibition including a copy of 18th century Scottish scientist James Hutton’s Theory of Rain and rain in the poetry of Robert…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (172+ words) Fine Books Magazine For book news, special columns, auction reports, events, and more. McKnight Fellowships for Book Artists 2026 Awarded to Christopher Selleck and Brooks Turner Excerpt from (left) Illuminated Biography, 2023, and (right) Legends and Myths of Ancient Minnesota, 2020, both by…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (166+ words) Sir Alec Guiness’s annotated copy of Shakespeare’s Hamlet The manuscript presents in score form, in a mixture of ink and pencil, and represent the only autograph material for the overture surviving in private hands as all other known autograph sources…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago   (224+ words) Robert Lawson, illustration for The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf, 1936 The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will mark the longevity of a classic picture book hero with its Under the Cork Tree: The Story of Ferdinand exhibition…...