Fine Books News: Recent

Scripts from The Bing Crosby Show feature in Sotheby's' Swinging on a Star: The Private Collection…
While it probably will not help solve the question 'Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?', Alan Rickman's…
Auctions
One of the most popular pieces of festive storytelling will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions December 12–15 celebrating the 60th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas which was first shown in December 9, 1965.Featuring in its The Art of Disney auction among various other examples of…
Auctions
Leading RR Auction’s December Fine Autographs & Artifacts sale are around 40 signed portraits of Albert Einstein including etchings, lithographs, letters, and photographs.
Current Events & Trends
Three years ago we asked "Is This an Unpublished Rackham Santa Claus?" when Peter Harrington's Christmas catalogue included an apparently unpublished, original drawing by Arthur Rackham showing Santa Claus inside a spacious chimney on Christmas Eve.
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Bellmans is selling an Australian single-owner collection of first edition novels by H. P. Lovecraft in exceptionally fine condition in its Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts auction on December 3.
Current Events & Trends
Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on in the coming weeks:At ALDE on Wednesday, December 3, Reliures originales & livres illustrés modernes, in 300 lots.
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Singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull's diaries are currently under the hammer at Bonhams' online Sound and Cinema auction which finishes on December 3.Faithfull (1946-2025) was one of the key figures of 1960s London, including collaborations with The Rolling Stones, Nick Cave, PJ…
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Catawiki has started a new way for collectors to experience the holiday season with its Books & Historical Memorabilia Advent Calendar, a 24-day sequence of curated 24-hour auctions. Running until December 24, a new themed auction opens every evening, each highlighting a different facet of…
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Rare pulp magazines and 'ashcans' from the Dr. Richard Meli Pulp Collection will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions December 4-6.
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A major new initiative to save and restore poet Robert Burns’s Ellisland Farm has been launched by The Robert Burns Ellisland Trust.The international fundraising 'The Saving the Home of Auld Lang Syne' campaign hopes to preserve the historic building in Scotland where Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne,…
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An early treatment for Gene Hackman's planned movie adapation of The Silence of the Lambs features in Bonhams' The Gene Hackman Collection: 
A Life in Art, Part III
 auction which runs online until December 4.