Lame Excuse Books (SF/F/H)

Americana

On his tenth attempt, David 'Bat' Masterson celebrates his 2024 victory with past winners of the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest outside Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West.

Hemingway Days Celebration in Key West

Revolutionary War and Founding Fathers Featured in Fine Autographs and Artifacts Auction

Thirteenth Amendment and Emancipation Proclamation to Auction with $17m Estimate

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

(left) Fred Spear, Enlist, 1915, estimate $7,000 - $10,000; (right) Fred Spear, Enlist, 1917, estimate $3,000 - $4,000

Propaganda and Travel Vintage Posters: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Bayeux Tapestry to be Displayed at the British Museum

The Grateful Dead, B.B. King, and Bob Dylan Lead Heritage's Concert Posters Auction

Book Arts

Mark Gatiss as Gabriel Book in Bookish

Mark Gatiss Headlines as Antiquarian Bookseller in New TV Crime Drama 'Bookish'

Pop-Up 'Antiquarian Bookstore' Launches to Promote a Single Title

LA Art Book Fair and NY Art Book Fair Dates

Rare Books

H. Rider Haggard, group of first/first American editions

Mystery and Detective Literature: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Archive of John le Carré to go on Display for First Time

Women Writers Who Inspired Jane Austen: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Book People

First edition of Orlando by Virginia Woolf, 1928

Virginia Woolf's Oak and Wordsworth's Yews Shortlisted for Tree of the Year 2025

Agatha Christie, the CIA, and Reading Welshly: July Books Roundup

Melbourne Rare Book Fair Returns Later This Month

Maps

A Complete Map of All Under Heaven by Cao Junyi

The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi’s ‘A Complete Map of All Under Heaven’

Maps & Atlases: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Maps of 18th Century Gardens: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Photographs

An example from the Emerson book

Victorian Photobook Bought at US Yard Sale to Auction with $67,000 Estimate

Rare Photograph of Abraham Lincoln with Son Tad to Auction

Previouly Unseen Photograph of Sale of Charles Dickens's Belongings on Display

Exhibitions

Dombey and Son reading copy owned by Dickens

Showtime! Explores 200 Years of Performances of Charles Dickens’s Stories

'Printing Books for Four Decades' Exhibition Celebrates Scott Vile

Jane Austen, Hebrew Manuscripts and Jack Kerouac at Grolier Club 2025-26

Auctions

The Letters & Autographs book coming to auction at Anderson & Garland

Autograph Album Featuring Letter from Charles Darwin at Anderson & Garland

Thirteenth Amendment and Emancipation Proclamation Sold for $18m

Galileo’s First Book, Mao’s Notes on Poetry, Brookeriana Bindings: Auction Preview