Fine Books News: Recent

A rare signed photograph tied to Marilyn Monroe’s 1954 visit to the San Francisco Federal Building…
The Fine Literature, Mysteries & Sci-fi, Bukowski, Beats and The Counterculture auction at PBA…
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RR Auction's Marvels of Modern Music sale features items related to Paul McCartney, Jim Morrison, and Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd.
This week's Rare Book of the Week is a presentation copy of Antoine Saint-Exupéry’s Pilote de guerre inscribed to husband and wife scriptwriters Dido Freire and Jean Renoir.Coming up at Dominic Winter's Printed Books, Maps & Documents auction on June 18 is the first edition limited…
It's Bloomsday today, celebrated around the world every June 16 which is the day on which James Joyce’s Ulysses is set in 1904. 
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The Huntington Library’s new exhibition series in Los Angeles opens June 21 with a focus on Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales and in particular the library's own Ellesemere Chaucer.
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Bartholomaeus’s De proprietatibus rerum printed in Cologne in 1481 by Johanem koelhoff de lubeck leads Bellmans' Printed Books & Manuscripts sale on July 16 with an estimate of £3,000 -£5,000.
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The Salon du Livre Rare & des Arts Graphiques opens today in Paris and runs through June 15.Organised by the French antiquarian booksellers association the Syndicat National de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne, there are more than 100 international exhibitors at the Carreau du Temple. Among…
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A document signed by Reich President Karl Dönitz authorizing the start of surrender negotiations with Allied forces in the final days of World War II sold for $166,333 at RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction.
An archive featuring the progress of Roald Dahl’s 1984 memoir Boy: Tales of Childhood including 33 original ink sketches in black ballpoint pen by Dahl comes to auction on June 18 at Lyon & Turnbull's June's Books & Manuscripts auction.The archive (estimate: £20,000 - £30,000) comes from…
A rare signed photograph of former US President Abraham Lincoln and his son will go under the hammer in Bonhams' June 16-25 Fine Books & Manuscripts sale.
Books and other personal items belonging to film-maker David Lynch will go under the hammer on June 18.