- Rare Book School scholarship and fellowship applications are now available, with a due date of 1 November.
- The Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair is coming up on 8–10 September. Purchase of an opening night preview ticket benefits the RBS Scholarship Fund. Hope to see some of you there!
- Scans of the Library of Congress' collection of Alexander Hamilton papers are now available online.
- A hard drive containing unpublished works by Terry Pratchett was destroyed by steam roller this week, per the author's wishes.
- Ithaka S+R and the Mellon Foundation have released a report on employee diversity in ARL libraries.
- Jeanette Lerman writes on the current LCP exhibition "The Living Book" for the Philadelphia Inquirer, highlighting the (utterly wonderful) leaf books of Joseph Breintnall.
- David Fuchs talked on "Morning Edition" this week about Walter and Graham Judd's Flora of Middle Earth.
- Miriam Katazawi reports in for the Globe and Mail from an ongoing inventory at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto.
- Books from Vivien Leigh's library will go on the auction block on 26 September at Sotheby's London.
Reviews
- Two Walt Whitman texts recently identified and edited by Zachary Turpin; review by Ted Genoways in the NYTimes.
- David Williams' When the English Fall; review by Abigail Deutsch in the NYTimes.
- Lawrence P. Jackson's Chester B. Himes: A Biography; review by Robert B. Stepto in the WaPo.
- Helen Pilcher's Bring Back the King and Ursula K. Heise's Imagining Extinction; review by Colin Dickey in the LARB.
- Carol Berkin's A Sovereign People; review by Monica Rico in the LARB.
Upcoming Auctions
- Printed Books, Maps & Documents at Dominic Winter Auctioneers on 6 September.
- Rare Books & Manuscripts, with the Fred Bennett Collection of the Book Club of California at PBA Galleries on 7 September.
- Eric C. Caren – How History Unfolds on Paper at Cowan's Auctions on 8 September.
- Books and Ephemera at National Book Auctions on 9 September.
- Fine Books and Manuscripts at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers on 13 September.
- Books at Heritage Auctions on 14 September.
- The Glory of Science at Bloomsbury on 14 September.
- Rare Cartography – Americana – Travel & Exploration at PBA Galleries on 21 September.
