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Our guide to the book fairs, auctions & exhibitions in NYC, March 4-11
Earlier this year, we invited dozens of antiquarian and rare book dealers to submit their most noteworthy sales of books or manuscripts over the past twelve months. Fine Books staffers then sifted…
It’s not every bestselling author who lives to see collectors’ editions of his books, but Tom Wolfe is rare by many standards.
When one thinks of Hollywood, the phrase “the written word” doesn’t always immediately leap to mind.
In 1896, Rudyard Kipling was living in Brattleboro, Vermont, with his American-born wife.
In 1880 a slim volume of poetry appeared that modern book collectors have come to see as the opening salvo in a revolution that had profound and long-lasting effects on commercial book production a
Dave Eggers is the Willy Wonka of the publishing industry.
Once, along the shores of Seattle, Washington, a young man met an old princess. She, out from her waterfront cabin, was on the tideflats collecting clams and mussels.
On Saturday, September 18, 1926, Henry Beston, a thirty-eight-year-old writer and editor, boarded a train in Boston, heading to Cape Cod for a two-week stay at “the Fo’castle,” his small dune shack