Over the years I have read Clarence Wolf’s Fifty Years A Bookseller 3 times. Recently he released an updated and augmented second edition. In time, it will be Sixty Years and you’ll be happy for it.
Initially, he wrote chapters and released them to Rare Book Monthly’s readership. They were dosed with the spirit of Joseph Mitchell’s Up in the Old Hotel. They were the best writing we’ve ever had on our site.
Two years later (2022) he released his first complete edition (155 pages), modeling (in my opinion) his book on Hakluyt’s experience. Initially it was complete but continued to be...
President Trump recently imposed tariffs on goods shipped from virtually everywhere into the United States. All sorts of manufacturers and suppliers are subject to tariffs. Goods from all nations a...
Book theft has long been the scourge of book collectors, sellers, libraries, and anyone else with books. It may be a single book, a couple of books, even a few more, but...43,665? How do you even d...
Over 600 items from the life and work of noted author, artist, and designer Edward Gorey fill three galleries at the Cushing Library at Texas AM University in College Station, Texas. The show, whic...
Recently I found an appealing manuscript document at Holabird Auctions, in Reno, Nevada. Of course I found them online using MatchMaker.
It is an agreement between three lawyers of Ulster Count...
Le Tableau de Paris (Paris, 1782) is a crazy book written by Louis-Sébastien Mercier (www.rarebookhub.com/articles/2055). It describes Paris at the eve of the Révolution (1789). A few years later, ...
If you are a Rare Book Hub Monthly (RBH) reader you probably know that our site has two sides. One side is by subscription and it gives members access to our over 15 million auction records, and th...
It took a few years, but a book of poems written by Charlotte Brontë 195 years ago has finally been published. Charlotte was only 13 years old at the time and still almost two decades away from sud...
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In times of distress, dealers and the collecting community in the rare books
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Asia has receive a lot of attention lately, sometimes for the wrong reason. It has been a whipping boy in the tariff debate. Its sin has been the ability to produce goods Americans want at a price ...
Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books is proud to announce the exclusive exhibition, Timeless Couture: The Art of Dress in Medieval Manuscripts, in its gallery space from June 16–20, 2025 during Art Basel.
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An Update: Recently I received a call from an old friend, Justin Schiller, whose collection of Hans Christian Andersen material was heading into the rooms at Bonhams in New York. With barely a week...
There are two places where you expect to find rare and antiquarian books – private collections and rare book rooms of libraries. Here's a place you might not expect to find them – hotels. There are...
Twelve copyright lawsuits pitting authors and publishers against OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, and Meta (formerly Facebook) have been consolidated to one. The purpose is to avoid duplication of trial...
Before heading into May, see what happened in Rare Books through April with THE ANTIQUARIAN OUTLOOK.
WEEK 17 (04/21): https://youtu.be/sxwewIBVMr4
WEEK 16 (04/14): https://youtu.be/MJ07Vxw9T_E...
We review four new bookseller catalogues for May. The Lawbook Exchange has accounts of murders and other terrible crimes, along with the more mundane everyday rules of jurisprudence. Shapero Rare B...
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: These are the Times that Try Men's Souls, Thomas Paine. $80,000-$120,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Manuscrpit from Aboard The Discovery, Signed by George Vancouver. $80,000-$120,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Exceedingly Rare Holograph Fragment of James Cook's Logbook. $80,000-$120,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Colonial America: The Collection of William Nesheim: Thomas Lechford: Important First-Hand Account of Life in New England. $40,000-$60,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: The First Expanded Edition of Common Sense, Thomas Paine. $30,000-$50,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin: Album of Exceptional California Lettersheets. $20,000-$30,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin: An Exceptional Group of Gold Rush Letters, c. 1849-1850. $20,000-$30,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Colonial America: The Collection of William Nesheim: Mather's King Phillips War Tract 1639-1723. $15,000-$25,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Colonial America: The Collection of William Nesheim: The First Contemporaneous Account of the Salem Witch Trials, Cotton Mather. $15,000-$25,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Poor Richard's Almanack 1749, Benjamin Franklin. $15,000-$20,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin: Fruits of Mormonism by Nelson Slater. $15,000-$25,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin, Across the Plains in '49 by Emanuel Goughnour. $12,000-$18,000
Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair 17 and 18 Oct
Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair 17 and 18 Oct
Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair 17 and 18 Oct
Sotheby’s By a Lady 1-15 October 2025
Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Queen Elizabeth I. A queen’s defense of the realm, and the birth of the British Empire. $500,000 to $700,000.
Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Vanessa Bell — [Virginia Woolf]. An exceptional encapsulation of the Bloomsbury Group. A striking tile created by Vanesa Bell for her sister, Virginia Woolf, ca. Christmas 1926. $25,000 to $35,000.
Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. A long and intimate autograph letter signed ("JA"), to Cassandra Austen. $300,000 to $400,000.
Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. “Lines on Maria Beckford,” autograph manuscript signed ("Jane Austen"). $100,000 to $150,000.
Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: [Austen, Jane]. Emma, the extraordinary Edgeworth-Butler copy. $250,000 to $350,000.
![<b>Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15:</b> Vanessa Bell — [Virginia Woolf]. An exceptional encapsulation of the Bloomsbury Group. A striking tile created by Vanesa Bell for her sister, Virginia Woolf, ca. Christmas 1926. $25,000 to $35,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d61e5df0-f7df-4ff3-b120-69c4c4ded5d5.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15:</b> Vanessa Bell — [Virginia Woolf]. An exceptional encapsulation of the Bloomsbury Group. A striking tile created by Vanesa Bell for her sister, Virginia Woolf, ca. Christmas 1926. $25,000 to $35,000.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15:</b> [Austen, Jane]. Emma, the extraordinary Edgeworth-Butler copy. $250,000 to $350,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3d91ed5b-6dab-40a2-8ec2-3ba57b219840.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15:</b> [Austen, Jane]. Emma, the extraordinary Edgeworth-Butler copy. $250,000 to $350,000.")