Fine Books News: Recent
Incline Press proprietor, printer and binder Graham Moss has died in Scotland after a short illness.
Durham Cathedral has opened its landmark summer exhibition Magna Carta and the North with a…
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Highlights from Bernard Quaritch's new catalogue Nowhere, a selection of books on utopias, dystopias, and imaginary voyages include:And a New Earth. A Romance by Charles Ernest Jacomb (London, George Routledge & Sons, 1926)
Heritage Auctions’ July 24–25 Movie Posters auction features a range of Universal's horror posters plus the work of Charlie Chaplin and Steven Spielberg.Highlights include glass slides for Dracula and Frankenstein, a six sheet poster for 1940’s The Mummy’s Hand, a title lobby card for the 1935…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Laura Ryan, proprietor of Aviary Books in Massachusetts.How did you get started in rare books?
A newly discovered raccoon-sized armored monstersaurian lizard from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has been named for the goblin prince from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, 'Bolg amondol'
A rare signed photograph tied to Marilyn Monroe’s 1954 visit to the San Francisco Federal Building has sold for $21,655 at RR Auction.Two weeks after marrying baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, Monroe arrived at the Federal Building on January 29, 1954, to secure a passport for their upcoming honeymoon…
The Fine Literature, Mysteries & Sci-fi, Bukowski, Beats and The Counterculture auction at PBA Galleries on July 17 features a section dedicated to the works of Charles Bukowski, including original art, limited editions, manuscripts and letters.
Original comic art from Gene Colan, Gill Kane, and Brian Bolland plus sports and political memorabilia comes to auction later his month at Hakes.
Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on over the next couple of weeks:At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, July 15, 220 lots of Fine Books & Ephemera.
This week's Rare Book of the Week is more than a single book it's an entire pop-up secondhand bookshop sited in a 1935 Parisian bus which will be one of the many venues and attractions at this year's Ventnor Fringe on the Isle of Wight.
The typewriter that Cecil B. DeMille used for his 1914 movie The Squaw Man goes under the hammer at Heritage Auctions tomorrow in its dedicated Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Collection auction.
