December 2009 | Jonathan Shipley

Five Things You Don't Know about Louisa May Alcott

Before you watch the PBS special, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind "Little Women," this video will tempt your palate for more about the famed author:

Rare Books

The Sarum Master Bible

Friends of the Nations’ Libraries Donates 13th Century Sarum Master Bible to Salisbury Cathedral

The Great Mongol Shahnama: Rare Book of the Week

Complete Collection of Kelmscott Press Books Including Association Copies to Auction

Exhibitions

Oscar Wilde’s hands sketched by Edward Heron-Allen

Oscar Wilde’s Palms in New Exhibition About Divination

16th Century Gardening Manual, Secret War Maps, and Football Fanzines in British Library's 2025 Exhibitions

David King’s Small Press Publications and Zines Celebrated in New Exhibition

Auctions

Ten Commandments stone tablet

Oldest Inscribed Tablet of the Ten Commandments Sold For $5.04m

Isaac Newton's Handwritten Manuscript on Religion Sold for $69,870

Ten Commandments Tablet, Kelmscott Press Collection, Alcott Autograph Manuscript: Auction Preview

Sponsored

reading a book

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Photographs

James Baldwin sitting in a Triumph Herald on the Bosporus Ferry

James Baldwin Centennial Marked with Rare Photographs in New Exhibition

Frank Hurley's Photographs of Shackleton's Endurance Expedition Lead Exploration Auction

Cartier-Bresson and Chris Killip Lead Auction of Eric Franck’s Photography Collection

Americana

Charles Lindbergh's handwritten plea

Charles Lindbergh, Al Capone, and George Washington Autograph Documents to Auction

Manuscript Leaf from First Draft of 'Atlas Shrugged' to Auction

Raymond Chandler's Typewriter, Scarf, and Unpublished Fantasy Stories to Auction

Visual Art

A selection from more than 200,000 items from the AIDS Memorial Quilt Archive

Library of Congress Launches Digitized Collection of National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records

Rare ‘Son of Frankenstein’, Disney, and Orson Welles’ 'Macbeth' Posters to Auction

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Vintage Posters

Maps

F.A. Somerville, Journal of H.M.S. Glory from Nov. 1900 to April 1902,

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Rare Maps and Atlases

Rare 17th Century ‘Star Atlas’ from Golden Age of Dutch Mapmaking On Display For First Time

Bay of Pigs Map Signed and Annotated by Fidel Castro to Auction

Book Arts

Blue-Green Abelard

Dr Seuss's Blue Green Abelard to Auction

Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet Becomes Interactive AI Avatar

Ptolemy’s 'Geographia': Rare Book of the Week

Book People

Dogs in Early Photography by John Koh

Lewis Carroll Bibliography, Renaissance Libraries, and the Unfinished Work of Great Writers : December Books Roundup

Penn Libraries Receives $5m Bequest From Medieval Historian Elizabeth Brown

Grand Gesture Books and The Rise of Romance Bookstores