December 10, 2009 | Jonathan Shipley

Five Things You Don't Know about Louisa May Alcott

Before you watch the PBS special, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind "Little Women," this video will tempt your palate for more about the famed author:

Auctions

1858 mammoth albumen print of Cairo by Francis Frith.

BINAC Computer Manual, Shackleton Presentation Copy, Blue Paper Euclid: Auction Preview

Cecil B. DeMille's Typewriter and Ten Commandments Tablets to Auction

Autograph Album Featuring Letter from Charles Darwin at Anderson & Garland

Rare Books

And a New Earth. A Romance by Charles Ernest Jacomb

Utopias and Dystopias: Five Rare Books for Collectors

The Book Bus: Rare Book of the Week

Mystery and Detective Literature: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Americana

Evergreen Review at PBA Galleries

Charles Bukowski, Beats and The Counterculture at PBA Galleries

Hemingway Days Celebration in Key West

Revolutionary War and Founding Fathers Featured in Fine Autographs and Artifacts Auction

Visual Art

Nicola Anthony's The Words That Bind Us on opening day

New Art Installation Celebrates Magna Carta Anniversary

Rare Movie Posters for 'Jaws', 'Dracula', and 'The Bride of Frankenstein' to Auction

Gil Kane and Brian Bolland Original Comic Cover Art at Hakes

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

Marilyn Monroe’s signed photograph

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

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

Rare Photograph of Abraham Lincoln with Son Tad to Auction

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

Book Arts

Mark Gatiss as Gabriel Book in Bookish

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

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

LA Art Book Fair and NY Art Book Fair Dates

Book People

Graham at the press

Graham Moss of Incline Press Dies at 77

Aviary Books' Laura Ryan on Photobooks, Photographing Books, and Astronomy Manuals

Newly Discovered Dinosaur Named After Tolkien Character in 'The Hobbit'

Exhibitions

Madame Yevonde, Portrait of Richard Aldington, c. 1929. From the collection of Simon Hewett.

Poet Richard Aldington Celebrated in New Exhibition

Showtime! Explores 200 Years of Performances of Charles Dickens’s Stories

'Printing Books for Four Decades' Exhibition Celebrates Scott Vile