Fine Books News: Recent

This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections…
Living with Nature is the latest exhibition presented by Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books in Basel and…
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This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections advisor specializing in rare books and manuscripts as well as fine photography and prints.
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The Man of Steel's battle against a prehistoric Krypton creature called Doomsday chronicled in 1992's Superman #75 The Death of Superman is estimate to have sold more tham 6m copies.The set of original drawings is under the hammer at ComicConnect's online auction finishing April 12.
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Five years after the inaugural sale, the fourth and final The Poetic Library of Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller will be held in Christie's Paris on March 24, nearly five years to the day after first auction which was marked by two pre-emptions by the Bibliothèque nationale de  France. 
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A new exhibition at The Grolier Club looks at the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries alongside the Irish nationhood using rare books, manuscripts, letters, theatre pamphlets, political propaganda, and photographs.
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An autograph album including a scarce Jane Austen signature with Austen family provenance is on offer in the online Fine Books, Atlases & Manuscripts auction at Bonhams finishing March 26.
Book Fairs
The Ephemera Society of America's Ephemera 46 Fair opens today and runs through March 22 with more than 60 exhibitors offering a huge variety of vintage posters, postcards, letters, photographs, tickets, brochures, and advertisements.Held at The Hyatt Regency in Greenwich, Connecticut, the…
Compelling Collections
Highlights of the Potter & Potter Vintage Posters auction on March 26 include:Job (Paris: F. Champenois, 1898) Classic Art Nouveau advertising poster by Alphonse Mucha (1860 – 1939) showing a woman with a cigarette rolled with Job papersPeaceful Paradise Valley/Northern Pacific Railway (St…
Four national libraries across Ireland and the United Kingdom have been awarded €750,000 through the UK-Ireland Cultural Co-operation Programme for Across These Islands: Shared Histories, Shared Futures, a first-of-its-kind partnership to widen access to their national collections, deepen research…
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Shetland Museum and Archives will host the final instalment of The National Library of Scotland’s centenary programme later this month with a focus on the poet Hugh MacDiarmid.Running March 28 through June 20, Outwith: Valda, MacDiarmid and Whalsay will focus on the years that MacDiarmid (pen name…
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Carte de Visites highlights of the Freeman's The Collected Library, Including Americana and Early Photography auction on March 20 include:* A group of 14 Carte de Visites of Abraham Lincoln and familyFeaturing Lincoln with his son Tad, five CDVs of Lincoln, four CDVs of Mary Todd Lincoln, and a…