Fairs | April 12, 2010 | Rebecca Rego Barry

New York, Continued

More from New York, but thankfully, not from me! A sweet article from Forbes ("Rare Books and Suicide Bombers") on the treasures at the NY fair this year.

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Rare Books

Jack Kerouac's On The Road scroll

Jack Kerouac's On The Road Scroll Sold for Recordbreaking $12m

How Palm-Leaf Manuscripts Preserve Indonesia’s Heritage

'If I Were Dictator': Rare Book of the Week

Exhibitions

Lewis Carroll’s personal copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

'Pets & their People' Exhibition Launches Season of the Natural World Series

Mozart's Letters and Early Composition Manuscripts Go On Show

History of Legal Aid Through Photos and Documents on Display

Book People

photographing the medieval Merlin manuscript

Erased, Burned, or Hidden from Sight, Unreadable Texts Are Being Decoded

Stockholm Book Fair 2026

Printed Matter Announces 2026 NY Art Book Fair Dates

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

Book Arts

Antony Gormley's Tree for Waiting for Godot on an upland bog in the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark Co. Fermanagh at the July 2019 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

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’

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Maps

WWII Operation Bigot map

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Americana

Clemens business card

Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln Memorabilia to Auction

Post-Washita General Custer Letter Sold at Auction for $550,000

Gettysburg Rail Pass and Lincoln’s Last Message to Congress to Auction

Photographs

Two Ladies at the Automat, NYC, 1966 by Diane Arbus (estimate: $20,000-$90,000)

Photography Collection of Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner to Auction

Getty Acquires Photographer Irving Penn’s 'Cuzco' Work

Unseen Early Italian Aviation Photography to Auction

Visual Art

Ester Hernandez

A Chicana Printmaker’s Radical Archive

Matisse’s Late-Career Cut-Outs Show an Artist Overcoming Limitations

Lost Original 'The Jungle Book' Illustrations Sold for £130,000 at Roseberys

Auctions

The March 19 auction includes this exterior wire photograph view of Lewis Michaux's African National Memorial Bookstore, a Harlem institution from 1932 to 1974 (New York, July 23, 1964)

Swann Galleries Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Annual Printed & Manuscript African Americana Auctions

King James I, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington Lead Autographs Sale

Illustrated Edition of First Cookbook Written by an American Heads PBA Galleries Sale