Vintage & Unusual Ephemera

Vintage and unusual books and ephemera, bought and sold in Southern California. IOBA & CABS.

Exhibitions

Maker unknown, mechanical singing bird box in book form, German, mid-20th century, silver, feathers. 12.3 x 8.3 x 4.1 cm. Gift of Lynn and Bruce Heckman, 2023

Exhibition of Book-like Objects Opens at at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Robert Persig's Motorcyle, Manual, and Manuscript of 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' on Show

New Exhibition Celebrates Charles Dickens' Pets and Animals in his Books and Homes

Book People

Richard Erdmann at the 2024 ESA Fair

Mare Booksellers' Richard Erdmann on Zines, Underground Press, and Collecting Samuel Beckett

Jane Austen Museum Seeks Volunteers to Help Transcribe Newly Acquired Memoir

ABAA and IOBA Sponsor 2024 David Ruggles Book Collecting Prize

Rare Books

The Kronos Quartet

Kronos Quartet  Music Manuscripts Acquired by Library of Congress

Major Grant Funds Digitization of the Newberry's Indigenous Peoples of North and Central America Book Collection

Firsts London Rare Book Fair Returns in May with ‘The Art of the Book’

Americana

Franklin Printing Company shop sign, circa 1920

Benjamin Franklin Book-Related Items to Auction

President Grover Cleveland's Signed Document Approving Utah Statehood Sold for $27,188

Bible Jackie Kennedy Read From at JFK’s Funeral to Auction

Book Arts

Underdog - The Other Other Bronte starring (left to right) Rhiannon Clements as Anne, Gemma Whelan as Charlotte, Adele James as Emily

World Premiere of New Bröntes Play Opens at National Theatre

The Creative Process of Italy's Most Prolific Small Publisher, Alberto Casiraghy

A New Book Examines 100 Years of the Historic Queen Mary's Dolls' House Library

Maps

Gerrit de Veer, VVaerachtighe Beschryvinghe Uan drie seylagien (Amstelredam: Cornelis Claesz, 1598). Engraving, 7.8 x 19.5 in (19.6 x 49.5 cm).

Early Maps, Photographs and Artists’ Books Chart 500 years of the Arctic

Early Baseball Sheet Music, Arrowsmith’s Maps, JFK Presentation Copy: Auction Preview

Rare New Amsterdam Map Helps Reveal Life in New York Before New York

Visual Art

Aldo Cosomati, For The Wimbledon Tournament June 25th, 1923

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Tennis Posters

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Golden Age of American Illustration

America’s Most Valuable Postage Stamp to Auction with $5 million Estimate

Photographs

An Inuit woman with her child, portrait by Beverly Bennett Dobbs

Wilson Centre for Photography Deposits Collection of Early Photographs at the Bodleian Libraries

Street Photographer Vivian Maier's Vintage Prints, Self-Portraits and Earliest Camera Work to Auction

New-York Historical Society Explores Bygone Landmarks of Lost New York

Sponsored

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Auctions

A Key to Snyders

Important Handwritten Isaac Newton Manuscript on Alchemy to Auction

$600,000 Estimate for Edgar Allan Poe's Autograph Manuscript 'For Annie' at Auction

Tarzan Jacket Art, Lincoln Assassination Reward Poster: Auction Preview