Fine Books News: Recent

Items related to the Gettysburg Address and Abraham Lincoln's final Annual Message to Congress will…
A rare group of surviving documents connected to the first modern Olympic Games are being offered…
Current Events & Trends
Highlights from Forum Auctions' Books and Works on Paper online sale on September 11 featuring the work of Eric Ravilious from the collection of Barry & Saria Viney include: High Street by J. M. Richards 
News
The fourth annual David Ruggles Prize to support and encourage international young book collectors of color has been awarded to 
Laurane Reine-Adelaïde for her collection on Martinique.Reflecting the everyday lives of the Caribbean island's people, her collection is particularly rich in material on…
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The Carle will open a new exhibition later this month exploring Eric Carle’s career through the perspective of food. Cooking with Eric Carle, running September 20 through August 23, 2026, at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA, will feature more than 50 works dating from…
Current Events & Trends
Here are the sales I'll be watching in the coming weeks:On Wednesday, September 10, Hansons Auctioneers holds a sale of Fine Judaica & Theology (The Collection of Tim Lutz) & September Library Sale (224 lots).
Fairs
The York 2025 Rare and Antiquarian Book Fair returns to York Racecourse later this week running September 12-13.The fair has been running since 1974 
when it was first held with only 20 exhibitors at the White Swan Inn in York. Now held over two days, more than 200 of the country’s 
leading…
Current Events & Trends
A new limited edition of all six of Jane Austen’s major novels is published tomorrow by The Folio Society, encased in woven silk-and-cotton covers with original illustrations by Sarah Young.The Complete Novels by Jane Austen is published to celebrate the 250th anniversary of her birth, with a…
Auctions
One of Jane Austen’s letters written to her sister Cassandra in 1805 chronicling the social life of Bath that shaped her novel Persuasion headlines a special auction at Sotheby's next month.
Current Events & Trends
Highlights of Lyon & Turnbull's The Secret Life of Props: The Eccentric Trading Collection, online auction running September 24-25 include:* a pair of early 20th century mahogany and brass revolving bookcases with two tiers of book compartments, on tubular downswept legs and stretchers (…
News
RR Auction's online September Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction includes more than 800 lots and is anchored by highlights from the Civil War and American West Collection of Dr. Joseph Matheu.Among the offerings is a candid 1952 Ernest Hemingway handwritten signed letter…
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A line-up of mostly Marvel comics goes under the hammer at Richard Winterton Auctioneers on September 29.They were all bought contemporaneously by a Staffordshire man who enjoyed them in his youth and have subsequently been carefully stored in a loft for many years. Catalogued across more than 50…