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

Reconstructed fragment of a bronze military diploma from Sardinia, issued by the emperor Trajan to a sailor on a warship. 113/14 CE

New AI Tool Could Help Reconstruct Missing Ancient Inscriptions

Mark Gatiss Headlines as Antiquarian Bookseller in New TV Crime Drama 'Bookish'

Pop-Up 'Antiquarian Bookstore' Launches to Promote a Single Title

Book People

Oliver Bayliss

Oliver Bayliss on Graham Greene’s ‘Dracula’, Private Members’ Clubs, and New Ideas for the Rare Book Trade

Forum Auctions Appoints Vicki Wonfor as CEO

Five-Year Brian Friel Centenary Begins With Five Plays Over Five Weeks

Exhibitions

Villagers on Their Way to Church from Book of Hours, about 1550. Simon Bening (Flemish, about 1483 – 1561). Tempera colors and gold paint.

Getty Manuscripts Exhibition Focuses on Travel in the Middle Ages

Poet Richard Aldington Celebrated in New Exhibition

Handwritten Letters by Elizabeth II to Feature in New Exhibition on the Queen's Fashion

Sponsored

reading a book

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Photographs

Bill Cunningham, Municipal Building, built 1914

Photographer Bill Cunningham’s Archive Acquired by The New York Historical

Marilyn Monroe’s Signed Passport Photograph Sold for $21,655

Victorian Photobook Bought at US Yard Sale to Auction with $67,000 Estimate

Rare Books

John Gould, The Birds of Great Britain

The Birds of Great Britain: Rare Book of the Week

Archive of John le Carré to go on Display for First Time

Library of Longleat House Manuscripts at Frieze Masters 2025

Americana

The front of the repatriated manuscript

FBI Returns Stolen Conquistador Manuscript to Mexico

Charles Bukowski, Beats and The Counterculture at PBA Galleries

Hemingway Days Celebration in Key West

Auctions

A selection from a group of 400 titles, most first editions, at Freeman's Hindman

Detective Fiction, Don Henley Advice, and Napoleon: The Week in Rare Books

Scottish Music, Gould’s Birds of Britain, Durrell Presentation Copies: Auction Preview

Washington Irving’s Original Handwritten Manuscript of 'Legend of the House of Omeya' to Auction

Visual Art

(left) Fred Spear, Enlist, 1915, estimate $7,000 - $10,000; (right) Fred Spear, Enlist, 1917, estimate $3,000 - $4,000

Propaganda and Travel Vintage Posters: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Mary Blair Leads Original Disney Production Art Sale

Jane Austen's Illustrators Celebrated in New Anniversary Exhibition

Maps

F. E. Gallup. Gallup's Map of Texas, Showing Oil and Gas Fields, Pipe Lines and Refineries

Maps of Texas: Five Rare Books for Collectors

The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi’s ‘A Complete Map of All Under Heaven’

Maps & Atlases: Five Rare Books for Collectors