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Le Feu Follet's Adélaïde Carton on the Rare Book Trade in France
1+ week, 4+ day ago (473+ words) Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Adélaïde Carton of Le Feu Follet – Edition-Originale in Paris, France: How did you get started in rare books? Completely by chance. I had quickly tired of excavation sites after just a few…...
Important African Americana Collection Leads at Freeman's
2+ week, 5+ day ago (337+ words) Fine Books Magazine For book news, special columns, auction reports, events, and more. Important African Americana Collection Leads at Freeman's Paul Cuffe, signed autograph letter, sold for $96,000 An important African Americana collection has nearly tripled its pre-sale estimate at the…...
Original Noggin the Nog, Bagpuss, and Ivor the Engine Artwork to Auction
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…...
Oldest Book in Australia Flies in to Melbourne Rare Book Fair
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (381+ words) Fine Books Magazine For book news, special columns, auction reports, events, and more. Oldest Book in Australia Flies in to Melbourne Rare Book Fair Saint Jerome’s commentary on the prophet Isaiah offered for €850,000 by Antiquariaat Forum The 2026 Melbourne Rare Book…...
Tea Act, Peepshows, and Kubrick's 'Napoleon' Script: The Week in Rare Books
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…...
Kenneth Grahame's Illustrators' Archive to Auction
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…...
The Bookplate: A Library’s Most Personal Touch
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (377+ words) This fifteenth-century coat of arms of Hilprand Brandenburg of Biberach is the earliest known printed bookplate. “Today, leading Chinese and Japanese printmakers create multi-color woodcut bookplates, while artists in Eastern Europe and Russia produce mezzotints and aquatints,” said James P....
McKnight Fellowships for Book Artists 2026 Awarded to Christopher Selleck and Brooks Turner
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…...
New York Public Library Acquires Gay Talese Archive
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (190+ words) Fine Books Magazine For book news, special columns, auction reports, events, and more. New York Public Library Acquires Gay Talese Archive The New York Public Library has announced the acquisition of the professional and personal archive of journalist and bestselling…...
1543 First Edition of Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica to Auction
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (206+ words) Fine Books Magazine For book news, special columns, auction reports, events, and more. 1543 First Edition of Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica to Auction Andreas Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem Catawiki has announced the upcoming auction of a copy…...