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…
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A new exhibition opening next month at The Grolier Club will mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen.
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Opening November 28 at The New York Historical is a new exhibition exploring themes of memory, identity, and community.Stirring the Melting Pot: Photographs from The New York Historical Collections examines the immigrant experience in New York City through March 29, 2026.
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A number of civil war maps go under the hammer at Swann Galleries tomorrow in its Printed & Manuscript Americana sale.Leading the lots is a Union-drawn manuscript map of the Virginia countryside southwest of Alexandria very early in the war, around September 1861, shortly after the July 1861…
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William Blake's The Tyger comes from his rare first issue of Songs of Experience and will be offered at Christie's next month as a single, unbound work, the only impression from the earliest colour printed edition that is in private hands. 
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Highlights of Peter Harrington's latest catalogue Ruinous Wrath: The Literature of War include:
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The latest Freeman’s Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts auction featured selections from Richard Flaherty’s Shakespeare library, including a previously unrecorded copy of the rare Third Folio which was the hightest selling lot at $121,150, more than triple its low estimate.
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Here are the sales I'll be watching through the rest of November:
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A variety of lots at Bonhams' current Books, Atlases, and Manuscripts online auction ending November 19 include unique materials relating to novelist Anthony Powell best known for his A Dance to the Music of Time novel series.
Bright Young Collectors
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Kirin Gupta, one of the 2024 Honorable Mentions in the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for woman collectors aged 30 and younger.Where are you from / where do you live? 
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The Bonhams Deeds Not Words: A Women's Suffrage Collection online auction running November 10 – 20 features a single owner collection of rare suffragette memorabilia.The sale includes letters, photographs, memorabilia, postcards, books, and hunger strike medals that all tell the story of the women…