- Travis McDade has two recent pieces on Medium about rare book theft: "The Most Perfect Rare Book Crime" and "Prosecuting the Pittsburgh Rare Book Theft." See also his Atlas Obscura piece from this week on Robert Kindred's library thefts.
- Ryan Gilbey writes in the Guardian about "American Animals" as a mix of fact and fiction.
- Over on the ABAA blog, a post about bookseller Owen Kubik's recent assistance in returning some books to Yale University which had been stolen from the Sterling Library stacks in the 1970s.
- Don't forget the Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair, coming up 8–9 September! Looking forward to being there for the books and for the great series of talks lined up.
- Over at Medieval Manuscripts Provenance, "Mapping MMBL [Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries]," a handy guide to manuscripts in the UK.
- Bookfinder.com has released their list of the most-searched out-of-print books for 2017.
- The University of Washington's Sandra Kroupa is profiled in the Seattle Times.
- The BL has recently added some spectacular manuscripts to their digital collection.
- Over on the Center for the History of Physics blog, "A Life in Books," about the library of Dr. Silvan Schweber.
Reviews
- Jenny Uglow's Mr. Lear; review by David Orr in the NYTimes.
- Anne Boyd Rioux's Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy; review by Charlotte Gordon in the WaPo.
- Claire Tomalin's A Life of My Own; review by Heller McAlpin in the WaPo.
- Susan Carlile's Charlotte Lennox; review by Min Wild in the TLS.
Auctions
- A Bibliophile's Bibliophilic Library Part II at Forum Auctions (online) on 29 August.
- Books and Ephemera at Keys Fine Art Auctioneers on 30–31 August.
