- The Library of Congress launched a new crowd-sourced transcription tool.
- A man was arrested this week after attempting to steal a copy of Magna Carta from a display case at Salisbury Cathedral.
- A. N. Devers writes for the Fine Books Blog about Elizabeth Young's new Brooklyn bookshop.
- Sam Lemley, a doctoral student at UVA, won this year's National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest.
- Ken Sanders talked to France 24 in a short interview about his many years of tracking down book thieves, and about material he's handled relating to disappeared poet Everett Ruess.
- Over at Res Obscura, Ben Breen highlights isochronic maps.
- On the American Scholar's "Smarty Pants" podcast, "The Future is Feminist Book Collecting."
- The Washington Papers editorial project celebrates its fiftieth birthday.
- An unpublished Sylvia Plath story will be published in January by Faber, the Guardian reports.
Review
- Benjamin Balint's Kafka's Last Trial; review by Lev Mendes in the NYTimes.
Upcoming Auctions
- Bibliothèque de François Mitterand: Livres Modernes de 1900 à nos jours - Première partie at PIASA on 29 October.
- Bibliothèque de François Mitterand: Livres Modernes de 1900 à nos jours - Seconde partie at PIASA on 30 October.
- Travel Literature and Sporting Books from the Library of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson at Doyle New York on 30 October.
- Sotheby's single-item sale of one of just three known copies of a 1932 poster for The Mummy starring Boris Karloff ends on 31 October.
- The Adventure & Exploration Library of Steve Fossett, Part I at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers on 31 October.
- Autographed Documents, Manuscripts, Photos, Books & Relics at University Archives on 31 October.
- The Joel Harris Collection of Original Illustration Art and Illustrated Books (with additions) at PBA Galleries on 1 November.
- Rare Books & the Harrison Forman Archive at Addison & Sarova on 3 November.
