Alex Johnson

This week's Rare Book of the Week is a presentation copy of Antoine Saint-Exupéry’s Pilote de guerre inscribed to husband and wife scriptwriters Dido Freire and Jean Renoir.
It's Bloomsday today, celebrated around the world every June 1
The Salon du Livre Rare & des Arts Graphiques opens today in Paris and runs through June 15.
An archive featuring the progress of Roald Dahl’s 1984 memoir Boy: Tales of Childhood including 33 original ink sketches in black ballpoint pen by Dahl comes to auction on June 18 at
A rare signed photograph of former US President Abraham Linco
Books and other personal items belonging to film-maker David Lynch will go under the hammer on June 18.
Highlights of Swann Galleries' Printed & Manuscript Americana on June 12 spanning nearly five centuries of American history include: 
Ten handwritten letters by Swedish Hollywood star Greta Garbo
The only known photographs of mathematician and early computer programmer
Book collector Nicholas Royle—whose trilogy on the subject will be complete when Finders, Keepers is published by Salt next spring—is not simply interested in the volumes he gathers. He’s also…