The Fine Books Blog

Ode to John Keats

2013-05-22T13:05:36Z

Earlier this spring Bonhams revealed the news that this unique portrait had turned up in its London office. The oval miniature is catalogued as 'Circle of Charles Hayter,' perhaps obscuring the fact...

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Bright Young Things: David Anthem

2013-05-21T04:32:58Z

Our series profiling the next generation of antiquarian booksellers continues today with David Anthem of The Andalusia Bookman in Philadelphia.How did you get started in rare books?I think it all...

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Historic Collection of Rare Books Slated for Auction Despite Criticisms

2013-05-20T13:25:20Z

Almost a year ago, scholars at Canterbury Cathedral and the University of Kent became alarmed when the possibility arose that a major collection of early printed books and manuscripts might be broken...

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I is for Imagination in Appalachia

2013-05-17T13:00:00Z

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Northwestern Returns Bonaparte Letter to France

2013-05-16T05:47:26Z

Today, Northwestern University will be repatriating about 250 documents to France including a letter written by Napoleon Bonaparte's brother Joseph about the future Emperor's patriotism during the...

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Intellectual Property Prints

2013-05-15T12:29:39Z

Daniel Rolnik and Ryan McIntosh of Intellectual Property Prints in Los Angeles are launching a run of 100% handmade fine-art screenprints. Timed to support the annual...

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Man Copies Entire King James Bible by Hand

2013-05-14T04:36:20Z

Following in the footsteps of medieval scribes centuries before him, Phillip Patterson of upstate New York completed an enormous task: he copied the entirety of the Bible by hand....

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Auction Report: April & May

2013-05-12T23:58:39Z

Recent and upcoming auction doings: - 10 April was a pretty amazing day for Christie's New York. The sale of the first part of the Collection of Arthur & Charlotte...

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1922 - Gatsby, Newbery and Melcher

2013-05-10T12:46:19Z

The release of a new film adaptation of Fitzgerald's classic novel has reignited a mania for all things Gatsby. And why not? The story illustrates a prosperous, glamorous, yet sometimes...

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OED Editor John Simpson Announces Retirement

2013-05-09T04:09:13Z

A standard reference work found on the shelves of special collections libraries and rare book dealers across the country is the massive, 20 volume Oxford English Dictionary, or the OED for short....

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The Spring (and Summer) of Audrey Niffenegger

2013-05-08T12:51:21Z

For artist and bestselling novelist Audrey Niffenegger--and her legion of fans and collectors (myself included)--this spring and summer is quite an exciting time. With two new books, a ballet, and a...

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Harper Lee Sues Former Agent

2013-05-07T05:45:44Z

Harper Lee, the notoriously reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird, made headlines this week when she filed for suit in a Manhattan court alleging that Samuel Pinkus, the son-in-law of Lee's...

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Gatsby Girls

2013-05-06T12:24:26Z

F. Scott Fitzgerald's first eight short stories, originally published in The Saturday Evening Post, are out in a new edition (print or digital), complete with the original illustrations, cover art,...

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A Feline Fantasy Returns to Print

2013-05-03T13:58:58Z

"The Abandoned," by Paul Gallico; The New York Review of Books, $15.95, 312 pages, ages...

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Spare Rib Resumes Publication

2013-05-02T05:30:37Z

One of the defining voices of the "second wave" of feminism was the radical magazine Spare Rib.  The British publication was an offshoot of the feminist movement of the late 1960s....

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