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’

Sponsored

On the Origin of Species

First Edition of “On the Origin of Species” Features at Ripley

1859 First Edition of Darwin’s "On the Origin of Species" to Lead Ripley Rare Books Auctions

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Photographs

Marilyn Monroe and Paula Strasberg, Something’s Got to Give, 20th Century Fox Studios, Los Angeles May 1962

Marilyn Monroe Photos by Lawrence Schiller On Show Next Month

Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea' Location Photos to Auction

'Henry Wessel: Photographs and Books' at the Grolier Club

Maps

'Beggar' from Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis, c.1822, hand-coloured engravings by Thomas Lord Busby.

Charles Booth's Poverty Maps Lead New Housing Exhibition

Atlases and Maps: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

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

Americana

Items from the Sotheby's sale

$12m Estimate for Washington's Acts of Congress Printing at Sotheby's

Enola Gay’s Hiroshima Logbook and Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ Lyrics Lead RR Auction Sale

Important African Americana Collection Leads at Freeman's

Auctions

JFK's Bay of Pigs Top Secret letter

JFK’s Top Secret Bay of Pigs Letter to Auction

Library of Economist Michael Kuczynski to Auction

Gene Cernan's Handwritten Lunar Rover Repair Notes Sold for $510,000

Rare Books

Walt Whitman's O brood continental autograph manuscript poem, early 1860s

Walt Whitman’s Working Manuscript of 'O brood continental' Leads Peter Harrington Poetry Catalogue

Finely Bound Dos Passos Trilogy: Rare Books of the Week

Previously Unknown 15th Century Text by Gutenberg Associates Discovered

Visual Art

Diana in the Corn by Sir William Nicholson (1872-1949)

Novelist Jilly Cooper's Favourite Art Works to Auction

Original Art for Edgar Rice Burroughs Titles Leads Illustration Auction

Robert Louis Stevenson Statue Set for Unveiling

Book People

2026 Sandars Lectures Focus on History of Paper

Darby Ronning's Feminist Science Fiction Collection Wins Final Honey & Wax Prize

A. S. Byatt Archive Acquired by British Library

Exhibitions

Godfrey Bingley, Whitby, Across Harbour, 1896

Unfinished Byron Fragment Leads New Vampire Exhibition

Connections Between Textiles and Picture Books at The Carle

'2000 AD' Comic, Artists' Books, and Norman England Illuminated Manuscripts Lead British Library's 2027 Offerings