Fairs | March 10, 2011 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Florida Antiquarian Book Fair This Weekend

Coming up this weekend, the 30th annual Florida Antiquarian Book Fair. In honor of that, the Florida Antiquarian Booksellers Association has posted an interview on the fair's beginnings with Michael Slicker, ABAA proprietor of Lighthouse Books in St. Petersburg, FL.

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Book Arts

Miami Zine Fair 2025

Miami Zine Fair 2026 Details

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Exhibitions

Items from the Living with Nature exhibition

'Living with Nature' Manuscripts Exhibition Opens

Beauties of My Style

Muted Volumes: Book-Objects, Patterned Papers, and the Closed Stacks of Buhr

Americana

The North American Indian, Portfolios 1-20; and Volumes 1-20 by Edward S. Curtis

The North American Indian and Keats's Love Letters Lead Sotheby's Book Week

Frederick Douglass Broadside Leads Anti-Slavery to Civil Rights Auction

Lincoln Assassination Night Tickets to Ford's Theatre at Ongoing Jim Irsay Auction Series

Maps

Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1601

Atlases and Maps: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

New Book Focuses on Historic First Detailed Map of 18th Century London

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Photographs

Jean-Claude Sauer, Cocktail dresses known as “Homage to Pop Art”, Fall/Winter1966 haute couture collection. Published in LIFE magazine, September 1966

International Center of Photography Focuses on Yves Saint Laurent and Photography

Signed Authors’ Photographs: Five Rare Photos for Collectors

Center for Creative Photography Acquires Nine Photography Archives

Auctions

The 1950 letter signed by Winston Churchill to Charles de Gaulle

Winston Churchill Letter to Charles de Gaulle Sold for $50,908 at Auction

Carl Linnaeus Letter Sells for Record Price at Auction

Film Scripts and Princess Diana Letters In Terence Stamp Sale

Rare Books

Bird's Eye View of the City of Annapolis, MD. New York, 1864

Rabbi Papers, Needlework Album, and Annapolis Map: The Week in Rare Books

Previously Unpublished Tolkien Translation Discovered in Oxford Archives

James Strand Golden Age Comics Recovered by FBI on Sale

Book People

Actors dress as characters from Ulysses by James Joyce

National Library of Ireland Announces Bloomsday 2026 Programme of Events

47th Annual Conference on Book Trade History looks at the Story of Auction Catalogues

Melbourne Rare Book Week Announces 2026 Programme

Visual Art

Inside the new centre

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration Opens as World's Largest Illustration Centre

Archive Surrounding Controversial Fort Worth Painting Goes on Show

McKnight Fellowships for Book Artists 2026 Awarded to Christopher Selleck and Brooks Turner