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Book People

Dunlewey Church, Co Donegal

Five-Year Brian Friel Centenary Begins With Five Plays Over Five Weeks

The National Library of Scotland Celebrates Birthday Bash with 'Beano'

Bright Young Booksellers: Oliver Bayliss

Maps

F. E. Gallup. Gallup's Map of Texas, Showing Oil and Gas Fields, Pipe Lines and Refineries

Maps of Texas: Five Rare Books for Collectors

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

Maps & Atlases: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Americana

Evergreen Review at PBA Galleries

Charles Bukowski, Beats and The Counterculture at PBA Galleries

Hemingway Days Celebration in Key West

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

Rare Books

John Gould, The Birds of Great Britain

The Birds of Great Britain: Rare Book of the Week

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

Library of Longleat House Manuscripts at Frieze Masters 2025

Sponsored

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Auctions

A selection from a group of 400 titles, most first editions, at Freeman's Hindman

Detective Fiction, Don Henley Advice, and Napoleon: The Week in Rare Books

Scottish Music, Gould's Birds of Britain, Durrell Presentation Copies: Auction Preview

Washington Irving’s Original Handwritten Manuscript of 'Legend of the House of Omeya' to Auction

Book Arts

Reconstructed fragment of a bronze military diploma from Sardinia, issued by the emperor Trajan to a sailor on a warship. 113/14 CE

New AI Tool Could Help Reconstruct Missing Ancient Inscriptions

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

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

Photographs

Bill Cunningham, Municipal Building, built 1914

Photographer Bill Cunningham’s Archive Acquired by The New York Historical

Marilyn Monroe’s Signed Passport Photograph Sold for $21,655

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

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

Mary Blair Leads Original Disney Production Art Sale

Jane Austen's Illustrators Celebrated in New Anniversary Exhibition

Exhibitions

Madame Yevonde, Portrait of Richard Aldington, c. 1929. From the collection of Simon Hewett.

Poet Richard Aldington Celebrated in New Exhibition

Handwritten Letters by Elizabeth II to Feature in New Exhibition on the Queen's Fashion

'Printing Books for Four Decades' Exhibition Celebrates Scott Vile