September 11, 2020 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Video Fridays: Conserving Rare Books at King’s College, Cambridge

Spend nine minutes gazing at some beautiful books and learning how King’s College Library conserves a collection of rare English literature and theology books that belonged to an early nineteenth-century college provost. A First Folio and Jane Austen first editions are among them.

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Americana

Captain Robert A. Lewis’s mission-used flight logbook from the Enola Gay

Enola Gay’s Hiroshima Logbook and Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ Lyrics Lead RR Auction Sale

Important African Americana Collection Leads at Freeman's

George Washington Wartime Letter to New York Governor Sold for $45,375

Exhibitions

Moominpappa at Sea cover sketch by Tove Jansson

Tove Jansson's Illustrations Focus of New Exhibition

Details of First U.S. Exhibition Devoted to Medieval Blockbooks

History and Legacy of Irish Literature Focus of New Exhibition

Rare Books

Vita Sackville-West’s autograph draft of A Note of Explanation, 1922

Newly-Identified Vita Sackville-West Manuscript for Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House Leads Bloomsbury Catalogue

Thomas Jefferson Letter on Avoiding Wars and Debt at Raab

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Opens Next Week in Los Angeles

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’

Book People

Dickens Hallowe'en promotional image

Hallowe'en and Christmas Events at the Charles Dickens Museum

Bookseller Sky Duthie on Younger Book Collectors and Book-Adjacent Objects

History of Bookselling, Selling the Bible, and A Librarian’s Memoir: September Books Roundup

Auctions

Pictured left, a limited edition of The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe (estimate: $1,000-$1,500), and right, a first edition, first issue of The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case inscribed by Lewis Carroll, estimated at $2,000-$3,000.

Cat-Themed Books by Poe, Colette, and Warhol to Auction

Books in All Fields - Timed Auction

Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps & Views

Photographs

May 1956, Ernest Hemingway and a 730lb Marlin

Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea' Location Photos to Auction

'Henry Wessel: Photographs and Books' at the Grolier Club

Sports and Music Photographs by Michael Zagaris to Auction

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

On the Origin of Species

First Edition of “On the Origin of Species” Features at Ripley

1859 First Edition of Darwin’s "On the Origin of Species" to Lead Ripley Rare Books Auctions

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Visual Art

Neal Adams’ original pen-and-ink art for the cover of World's Finest #209 (DC Comics, Feb 1972)

Lawrence Klein Comic Books and Comic Book Art to Auction

Rare Iron Man, Captain America, and Batman Comic Art to Auction

Eric Carle's Modern Art Inspirations Featured in New Display