Fine Books News: Recent

Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Alexandra E. LaGrand, winner of the 2025…
Highlights from Heritage Auctions' auction include:Ten Years Ago: The Nazis Burned These Books (U.S…
Current Events & Trends
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…
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The anticipated top lot at Hake’s' November 18-19 sale is a Marvel X-Men #1 comic book published in September 1963 that contains the origin story and first appearance of the X-Men as well as Magneto. The Silver Age Marvel comic pairs a Stan Lee story with Jack Kirby’s cover and interior art…
Book Reviews
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.The Queen’s Atlas: Saxton’s Elizabethan Masterpiece by David FletcherA richly illustrated book featuring all of late Tudor cartographer-farmer Christopher Saxton’s groundbreaking maps of…
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The desk owned and used by J.R.R. Tolkien during his tenure as Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford in the 1940s and 1950s comes to auction next month at Christie's' Groundbreakers: Icons of Our Time auction.
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The annotated scripts, photos, musical scores, and books of one of the UK's favorite 20th century comedians Arthur Askey go under the hammer in a 220-lot auction at Hansons tomorrow.
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Daphne du Maurier's typewriter Olympia SM-4 De Luxe typewriter is going under the hammer at Bonhams' Books, Atlases and Manuscripts auction which ends on November 19.
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Highlights from Potter & Potter's Vintage Posters auction on November 13 featuring travel and airline posters, American and European advertising posters from the 19th century onwards, plus theater, magic, sports, music, and politics and activism categories include:* Rainier National Park / The…