Current Events & Trends | October 23, 2020 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Video Fridays: Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca

Just this week Netflix dropped the new film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel, Rebecca. Starring Armie Hammer, Lily James, and Kristin Scott Thomas, the updated gothic romance has stiff competition from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 version, but we’ll give it a try!

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Book Arts

Miami Zine Fair 2025

Miami Zine Fair 2026 Details

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Maps

London in the 18th Century

New Book Focuses on Historic First Detailed Map of 18th Century London

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Rare Books

Houdini's Paper Magic inscribed and signed to Beatrice Houdini

Houdiniana: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Illustrated Magna Carta: Rare Book of the Week

Writers' Autographs: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Photographs

Ascension du Mont Blanc by Auguste-Rosalie Bisson, 1862, albumen print

Roger Therond's Photography Collection to Auction

New Exhibition Reveals Creative Process Behind Peter Hujar’s Photography

Ansel Adams’ 'Winter Sunrise' and Milton Esterow Collection to Auction

Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Americana

Clemens business card

Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln Memorabilia to Auction

Post-Washita General Custer Letter Sold at Auction for $550,000

Gettysburg Rail Pass and Lincoln’s Last Message to Congress to Auction

Exhibitions

Detail from exhibition poster by Jackie Morris

Shelley’s Handwritten 'To a Skylark' Annotations in New Exhibition on Birds

Princeton Hosts Two Exhibitions Marking Nation’s 250th Anniversary

Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press at Charleston

Book People

Property plan of the parish of St Ann Blackfriars

Shakespeare's House in London Finally Pinpointed

Bright Young Collectors: Bella Savignano

Lyell Lectures 2026 Focus on Muslim Books in Christian Iberia

Visual Art

The two undeveloped pencil sketches for Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

Unseen Winnie-the-Pooh Preliminary Sketches Come to Light

50 Years Of Punk Sale Features Sex Pistols and The Damned Handwritten Lyrics

New Exhibition Focuses on Book Illustrators Balbusso Twins

Auctions

Godine’s exceptional copy of the 1896 Kelmscott Chaucer

Kelmscott Chaucer Leads Sale of Publisher David Godine's Book Collection

David Aronovitz’s Major Science Fiction & Fantasy Library to Auction

Groundbreaking Scientist Joseph Priestley's Family Letters to Auction