By Bruce McKinney
Effective October 1st AE is adding full coverage of book, manuscript and ephemera fairs around the world to its suite of free services. Links to both a show calendar and a listing of events are now the eighth and ninth items in the free services section (see the menu to the left). AE, on a separate calendar featured on its home page, covers book auctions around the world.
The link to the October calendar shows there are fourteen events upcoming and that they run a total of thirty-three days.
For AE members who are participating in events posted on the fair ca...
By Michael Stillman
The voice was riveting. In the days of my youth, it flowed along the airwaves like molasses, seeping into every corner of America and much of the world. This was the 1950s a...
By Karen Wright
I bopped on down to the Sacramento Antiquarian Book Fair from my high-on-the-hill shop in Virginia City, Nevada, a mere 2-1/2 hour drive. It was held September 16th at the Scot...
By Michael Stillman
We don't make a habit of writing about British literary intrigues, but once in awhile we have to make exceptions. This one made headlines in the land of Shakespeare, but per...
By Bruce McKinney
This is the second of five articles on the printing history of Joel Munsell.
Joel Munsell of Albany, New York, was an active printer from the late 1820's until his death in ...
By Michael Stillman
The verdict is in. The United States District Court for Connecticut pronounced its sentence on map seller and admitted thief E. Forbes Smiley on September 27, and when it was...
By Bruce McKinney
In Southern California, over the weekend of September 9th and 10th, The Santa Monica Book, Print,
Photo Paper Fair sought to welcome, under a single banner, collectors of ...
By Carl Burnham
London, land of the ages of time, where Romans conquered, built fortress walls, and eventually departed, and legendary kings and queens held court over all but the weather. The...
By Michael Stillman
BookFinder.com has issued its annual survey of the most popular out-of-print books, and their top ten lists are as amusing as they are surprising. BookFinder has an incisive...
By Bruce McKinney
The second sale of Glen Dawson's early Los Angeles [1874-1879] material was sold on September 29th at John's Western Gallery to a group of absentee and telephone bidders that p...
This month there are a lucky thirteen new bookseller catalogues reviewed in Section Two of AE Monthly. Aleph-Bet Books has almost 600 wonderful children's books waiting for the adult-child in you. ...
Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 26th March 2026
Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000
Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000
Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000
Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000
Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 26th March 2026
Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000
Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000
Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000
Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
