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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 7h ago

The book before the film. Always. We took a look at our first edition of Sense and Sensibility from 1811 ahead of the film hitting UK cinemas today📖 Be honest: are you book or film first?

Fine Books & Collections @finebooks.bsky.social · 6h ago

Bookseller Sky Duthie on Younger Book Collectors and Book-Adjacent Objects www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

Bookseller Sky Duthie on Younger Book Collectors and Book-Adjacent Objects

Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Sky Duthie, proprietor of Sky Duthie Rare Books based in York, England:How did you get started in rare books?

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 6h ago

Of Love and Hunger, Penguin, 2002 (cover by Edward Bawden) & Julian Maclaren-Ross, 1912-1964. 📚

The cover of Of Love and Hunger, by J. Maclaren-Ross, Penguin edition, 2002, illustrated with Edward Bawden's 1957 line drawing of Brighton Pier in black, cream, brown, yellow, green and blue.

Black and white portrait photo of a dark-haired young man wearing a suit jacket, with a cigarette in a holder in his hand, looking rather balefully at the camera.

Book Covers @bookcoverlove.bsky.social · 2w ago

Kindred Spirits exhibition presented by Victoria Arts Council and Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, When: 3 October - 15 November 2026 For more information: vicartscouncil.ca

Book Covers @bookcoverlove.bsky.social · 2w ago

The American Bookbinders Museum Open now until December 26th, The Hand Bookbinders of California's 54th Annual Members' Exhibition. bookbindersmuseum.org Image via www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

Book Covers @bookcoverlove.bsky.social · 4d ago

25 July - 21 November "The Wonderful World of Ladybird Book Artists celebrates the iconic books, original artwork and illustrators behind Ladybird’s remarkable success." www.mansfield.gov.uk/museum/exhib...

SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · yesterday

Artist Bruce Jensen sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/jensen... and author Richard Morgan sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/morgan... were born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Bruce Jensen, Bruce Jensen, Igor Kordej and Tomas Almeida):

Bruce Jensen’s cover artwork for “Archangel Protocol” by Lyda Morehouse

From Bruce Jensen’s ‘Alien Menagerie’: “enigma 1”

The cover to “Digitalni ugljik” by Richard Morgan

The cover to “No Man's Land” by Richard Morgan

SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 2d ago

Artist Romas B Kukalis sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kukali... was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art:

Romas B Kukalis' artwork for 'Tarzan, Conqueror of Mars' by Will Murray

Romas B Kukalis' artwork for 'The Saga of the Renunciates' by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Romas B Kukalis' artwork for 'David Starr, Space Ranger & Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids' by Isaac Asimov [as by Paul French]

Romas B Kukalis' artwork for 'Sword of the Deceiver' by Sarah Zettel

Book Covers @bookcoverlove.bsky.social · 2d ago

@bookcoverlove.bsky.social @thebookerprizes.com #bookerprize #designerbookbinders Details below about which binder has been paired with which shortlisted novel www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 2d ago

Throwback to my last UCLA visit! #ChainBinding

Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 2d ago

Call for applications: @fruitmarket.bsky.social Artists’ Bookmarket 2027. Edinburgh’s annual celebration of artists’ books culture, 13 & 14 February 2027. Stalls, accompanying exhibition, events and workshops programme. Applications close 08.11.26. More info at: www.fruitmarket.co.uk/artists-book...

A call out poster for the Artists’ Bookmarket 2027 in Edinburgh. Inviting participants, link for applications is in the main text message.

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 2d ago

Seems a bit overstated perhaps . . . Are hardback books things of 'great beauty' or a dying art? buff.ly/AHVarpX

The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 3d ago

Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's list. thebookerprizes.com/bp2026

The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist in full:

The End of Everything by M. John Harrison
The Disappearers by Marlon James
Black Bag by Luke Kennard
May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
John of John by Douglas Stuart

Book Covers @bookcoverlove.bsky.social · 2d ago

Each year @thebookerprizes.com shortlisted authors receive a unique, hand-bound fine binding of their nominated novel created by Fellows from Designer Bookbinders UK. This year the six binders are: Sue Doggett; Kate Holland; Nicky Oliver; Dominic Riley; Lori Sauer and Rachel Ward-Sale.

Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 3d ago

Like Bilbo, our 1st edition of The Hobbit has been ‘There and Back Again’! In 89 years at the UL, it’s seen multiple class marks, locations & exhibitions. What adventure should it embark on next? Drop your Tolkien/UL puns below, ready for the eleventy-first anniversary (in 22 years!). #HobbitDay

A person in a denim jacket holds a first edition copy of The Hobbit in a green cloth cover with dark ink illustrations of mountains and a dragon

The title page of a 1937 first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, showing crossed-out library call numbers and a Cambridge University Library stamp dated October 6, 1937.

Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 3d ago

Ladybird book in the spotlight ‘Dick Whittington and his Cat’ (1966) Artist: Eric Winter

The front cover of the book showing Dick in a yellow doublet and magenta hose with his white cat.they are standing in a cobbled street - a depiction of mediaeval London

Book Covers @bookcoverlove.bsky.social · 3d ago

#bookcoverfun

Orkney Library & Archive@orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 3d ago

Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚

Fine Books & Collections @finebooks.bsky.social · 4d ago

Kierra Duncan Wins 2026 David Ruggles Prize www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

Kierra Duncan Wins 2026 David Ruggles Prize

Kierra Duncan has been awarded the David Ruggles Prize Grand Prize of $1,000 for her collection Translating Blackness Across Space which gathers American, British, and Anglophone Caribbean editions ...

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Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷@book-historia.bsky.social · 4d ago

Bookbinder: And how would you like your early 19th century hand-colored suites of plates to be bound? Customer: Your finest orange buckram faux crocodile skin, please

Two books, each bound in orange-y cloth with a crocodile skin pattern

One of the plates from the book, an alcove in red and green

Book Covers @bookcoverlove.bsky.social · 4d ago

Dan Wagstaff @danwagstaff.bsky.social · 3w ago

And while I'm down a vintage book cover well, David Pearson's side project The Book Cover Review is great... bookcoverreview.co.uk

The Book Cover Review

The Book Cover Review brings you 500-ish word reviews of beloved book covers – both new and old – from a range of voices around the world.

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Jim Stokes @jimstokes.bsky.social · 5d ago

The book and my #booknote The Mysterious Planet by Kenneth Wright. 1953, cover art by Alex Schomburg. #booksky YA Sci-fi as political activism...fun stuff.

Young man in spacesuit looking on as spaceships arrive

#booknote highlights story's anti-war / peace sentiments

David Hyman @davidhyman.bsky.social · 5d ago

The Saint In New York by Leslie Charteris (Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin) (Pan 66, 1949, Reprint). Cover Art by Pollack. #TheSaintInNewYork #LeslieCharteris #1940s #book #books #paperback #crime #thriller #PanBook #PanBooks #TheSaint #mystery

Jim Stokes @jimstokes.bsky.social · 5d ago

This cover by Edward Gorey turns #SpookySunday into something whimsical and delightful! Devils & Demons A Treasury of Fendish Tales Old & New Selected by Marvin Kaye, 1987.

creatures frolicking (in air and atop burning mound above chamber strewn with bones) with mummies

Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · last wk.

Failed attempt to make my posts less beige… Two decorated examples of binder’s waste: one a late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century printed fragment and the other a sixteenth-century manuscript leaf. #bookhistory #earlymodern #rarebooks 💙📚📜

Book Covers @bookcoverlove.bsky.social · last wk.

New York Public Library The ABCs of Children's Books in the Rayner Special Collections Wing www.nypl.org/blog/2026/09...

Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · last wk.

Ladybird cover stories. The 'How it Works' series (1965 -1971) Remember any of them? Artist: BH Robinson

A selection of the first 12 books in the series, laid out in a grid to show their covers

Fine Books & Collections @finebooks.bsky.social · last wk.

History and Legacy of Irish Literature Focus of New Exhibition www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

History and Legacy of Irish Literature Focus of New Exhibition

The New York Historical museum explores the history of literary Ireland in a new exhibition opening tomorrow featuring more than 135 rare books, manuscripts, broad sheets, playbills, drawings, prints,...

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · last wk.

Guy S. Ricketts 🌞 The 1912 first edition of Aesop's Fables features the beautiful and ethereal illustrations by artist Arthur Rackham. □First edition cover 1912 "The Quack Frog".

Martinet @martinet.bsky.social · last wk.

Present exemplaren uitgevoerd in Tree Calf door een anonieme handboekbinder. #Bibliofilie