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World Book Day: Half of UK Adults Say Distraction Stops Them Reading

1 day ago | finebooksmagazine.com | Nicholas Basbanes

The Reading Agency's Quick Read giveaway at Waterstones Bradford for World Book Night The Reading Agency’s State of the Nation in Adult Reading 2025 report released for World Book Day today indicates a growing reading crisis among adults who report distraction as one of the most common barriers to reading for pleasure in the UK.
All Four Shakespeare Folios to Auction with £4.5m Estimate

1 day ago | finebooksmagazine.com | Nicholas Basbanes

Sotheby's' auction dedicated solely to all four Shakespeare Folios will mark the first time they have been offered as a single lot since 1989. The set, which will be offered in London on May 23 with an estimate of £3.5 – £4.5 million, was brought together in 2016, but the First, Third, and Fourth Folios have been together since around 1800 when they were purchased separately by Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn.
Hans Christian Andersen First Edition, Association Copies, and Dolls' House Furniture at Auction

1 day ago | finebooksmagazine.com | Nicholas Basbanes

Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson, presentation copy for Peter Koch in original wappers Inscribed first edition books by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, and more than 35 association copies as well as autograph letters and original artworks created for some of his most famous stories are going under the hammer at Bonhams' online auction running until April 29. The 90 lots on offer come from the personal collection of American bookseller and children's book specialist. Justin G. Schiller.
Maurice Sendak's Works and Collection to Auction to Fund Special Fellowship

2 days ago | finebooksmagazine.com | Nicholas Basbanes

Where the Wild Things Are, New York, Harper & Row, 1963. First edition, first state, from the author’s library. Estimate: $6,000-$9,000. More than 100 works by artists who inspired illustrator Maurice Sendak as well as almost 30 original works by Sendak himself will go under the hammer at Christie's. Maurice Sendak, Artist, Collector, Connoisseur includes a live auction on June 10 which would have been Sendak’s 97th birthday, and an online auction May 29 - June 10.
Rare Henry David Thoreau Handwritten Manuscript from 'Cape Cod' to Auction

2 days ago | finebooksmagazine.com | Nicholas Basbanes

Hand-edited manuscript leaf by Henry David Thoreau for Cape Cod An original hand-edited manuscript leaf by Henry David Thoreau for his work Cape Cod will be offered by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on April 24, 2025.
Oldest English Book on Cheese: Rare Book of the Week

3 days ago | finebooksmagazine.com | Nicholas Basbanes

Held by Cultural Collections at the University of Leeds, the earliest-known English book about cheese has revealed its fascinating - and sometimes nauseating - contents to the public for the first time after a new transcription has been made available online.
Da Vinci and John Coltrane Manuscripts Lead Exhibition of New Acquisitions at the Morgan

6 days ago | finebooksmagazine.com | Nicholas Basbanes

Leonardo da Vinci, Trattato della pittura (A Treatise on Painting). Manuscript fair copy, produced in the workshop of Cassiano dal Pozzo, ca. 1638–1641 The Morgan Library & Museum will open A Celebration: Acquisitions in Honor of the Morgan’s Centennial, an exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Pierpont Morgan Library as a public institution on May 9.
Freeman's | Hindman - Chicago

6 days ago | finebooksmagazine.com | Nicholas Basbanes

Twice a year (May and November) large auctions of books, manuscripts and art
New Exhibition of First Editions and Artworks Celebrates Edward Gorey Centenary

1 week ago | finebooksmagazine.com | Nicholas Basbanes

Author, artist, and designer Edward Gorey created work that has permeated both our commercial and cultural worlds and a showcase of his 50-year career at Texas A&M University’s Cushing Memorial Library & Archives is running through September 17. The Ubiquitous Edward Gorey exhibition features more than 600 items including books from Cushing’s extensive Gorey holdings and biographic materials, personal items, and examples of Gorey’s creative output from the Miller Family Edward Gorey Collection.
'Victorian Books and their Servants'

1 week ago | finebooksmagazine.com | Nicholas Basbanes

This year's Lyell Lectures will be given by Professor Leah Price at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford and via Zoom. The series will look at how Victorians and their servants interacted with books and their respective reading lives. Price is Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, where she directs the Initiative for the Book which she founded. Her works include What We Talk About When We Talk About Books and How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain.