Lame Excuse Books (SF/F/H)

Rare Books

Romanesque binding from Clairvaux covered with a chemise with hairs on

Sealskin Confirmed as Material for Medieval Book Covers and Parchment

Autographs: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Flushing Remonstrance: Rare Book of the Week

Book Arts

Edward Gorey exhibition brochure

New Exhibition of First Editions and Artworks Celebrates Edward Gorey Centenary

Karen Wirth's Book Art Inspired by Architectural Forms Goes on Show

DogEar Festival Returns to Celebrate Artists’ Books and Printmaking

Photographs

Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey, Herbarium Plate 54 - Pansy, 202, and Herbarium Plate 64 - Christmas Cactus, 2023. Archival pigment prints.

Photo-Based Work Inspired by Emily Dickinson's Garden on View

Julia Margaret Cameron's Images for Tennyson to Auction

Historic England Acquires Collection of Earliest Photographs of England

Sponsored

reading a book

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Visual Art

bill bissett. Lunaria. Granary Books, 2001

Small Press Experimental Poetry Focus at New Grolier Exhibition

'Goodnight Moon' Stamps to be Unveiled for Children's Book Week

Victor Hugo’s Drawings Go on Show

Americana

Detail of the martial law broadside

Broadside Announcing Martial Law During 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre to Auction

Rare Documents from American Revolution Under the Hammer at Bonhams

National Archives Releases Thousands of JFK Assassination Records

Maps

Geographia, Sebastian Münster, 1540

Sunderland Collection Rare Cartographical Loan on Display

16th Century Cartographer's Library Recreated at TEFAF Maastricht

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Rare Maps and Atlases

Auctions

On the Wing cover artwork by Quentin Blake

Quentin Blake Artworks at Fundraising Sale for the Centre for Illustration

Sir Brooke Boothby's Fonmon Castle Library and Rare Mathematic Treatise to Auction

Picasso Postcard, Bob Dylan's Yearbook, Richard Stockton's "Yankee Doodle": Auction Preview

Book People

The cover of Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them

Nate Pedersen on The Books of Pseuoscience

Lyell Lectures 2025: 'Victorian Books and their Servants'

65th New York International Antiquarian Book Fair Enjoys Record Year

Exhibitions

Leonardo da Vinci, Trattato della pittura (A Treatise on Painting). Manuscript fair copy, produced in the workshop of Cassiano dal Pozzo, ca. 1638–1641

Da Vinci and John Coltrane Manuscripts Lead Exhibition of New Acquisitions at the Morgan

Story of George Washington and King George III Told Through Original Documents

Weston Library Celebrates Anniversary with Unveiling of Newly Discovered Royal Manuscript