Fine Books News: Recent

The Huntington has announced a wideranging exploration of the relationship between land, United…
Items from one of the UK'S most popular high street booksellers WH Smith are at auction at Chorley’…
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The 2022 and 2023 McKnight Book Artist Fellowship Exhibition opens on January 21 at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. 
Fairs
More than 70 exhibitors will showcase a range of rare books, ephemera, art, and design at The Winter Show 2025.Among those at the show running January 24 though February 2 will be Peter Harrington Rare Books. Among its offerings are:
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The Book of the Marvels of the World, an illustrated guide to the globe filled with oddities, curiosities, and wonders for the medieval armchair traveler will go on display at The Morgan Library & Museum tomorrow.
Bright Young Collectors
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Amelia Soth, an honorable mention in the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Contest for women collectors aged 30 and younger.Where are you from / where do you live?
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The New York Public Library has acquired the archive of Jhumpa Lahiri, including papers charting Lahiri’s rise in the literary world from her Pulitzer Prize-winning debut story collection The Interpreter of Maladies to her recent translation work.
Book Reviews
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors.Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books by Reid Byers
Book Fairs
The Stuttgart Rare Book Fair, Germany's international fair for valuable books, autographs, illustrated works and graphic art, will be held at the Württembergischer Kunstverein January 24 - 26, organised by the German Association of Antiquarian Booksellers. 
Current Events & Trends
At Kedem Auctions on Tuesday, January 21, Important Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection, in 200 lots. A large volume of manuscript rulings and responses by Moroccan rabbis of the eighteenth century, including a letter written by the Or HaChaim (c.1696–1743)…
Current Events & Trends
This week's Rare Book of the Week is White Bull's ledger book dating back to the late 19th and early 20th century. Written and drawn by White Bull, the nephew of Sitting Bull and who claimed to have killed General George Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, it records winter…
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A new exhibition at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art honors the work of artist Raúl Colón whose signature style of textured watercolor and colored pencil paintings are showcased in more than 50 books.