- Coming up on 14–15 August, the Virtual Ephemera Fair (summer edition).
- Christie's will sell the private collection of the late and much-missed Bill Reese in a series of four sales beginning in May 2022.
- A 3,600-year-old tablet containing a portion of the Gilgamesh epic was seized from Hobby Lobby's Museum of the Bible by the Department of Justice in 2019, and a court ordered its forfeiture this week based on the tablet's illegal importation into the United States (first in 2003 and then with false provenance in 2014).
- Over on the Notre Dame Special Collections blog, "Preparing a Parchment Fragment for Posterity."
- The lineup for the 42nd Annual Conference on Book Trade History, "The Humours of Collecting," was announced this week.
Upcoming Auctions
- Modern Literature at Forum Auctions on 5 August.
- Vintage Posters at Swann Galleries on 5 August.
- Fine Literature – Beats & the Counterculture at PBA Galleries on 5 August.
