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November 8, 2024 - November 10, 2024 46th Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair

The Boston Book Fair is the annual fall gathering for book lovers and collectors, featuring the top selection of items available on the international literary market. Mark your calendars for the 46th annual gathering of U.S. and international dealers, sanctioned by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.

This three-day event features fine and rare materials from around the globe, including manuscripts, modern first editions, children’s books, ephemera, maps and autographs, as well as antiquarian books on a vast array of topics.

Fri 4pm - 8pm / Tickets $25
Sat noon - 7pm / Free Admission
Sun noon - 5pm / Free Admission

Hynes Convention Center
900 Boylston Street

Boston, MA

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June 13, 2024 Swann Auction Galleries

Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
Sale #2672

Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street

New York, NY

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May 1, 2024 Doyle - New York

Rare Books, Autographs & Maps

The selection of Americana features important autograph letter from Thomas Jefferson on the arrest of Toussant Louverture and a prisoner discharge signed by Abraham Lincoln. Among the maps are a rare example of Matthew Dripps’ Map of the City of New-York,  Moses Greenleaf’s Map of the State of Maine, and Joseph Bouchette’s monumental ten sheet Topographical map of the Province of Lower Canada.

Literature includes a fine collection of books by F. Scott Fitzgerald, including a rare signed copy of his novel of the French Riviera, Tender is the Night. William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Mosquitoes are offered in dust jacket and a great rarity is Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, one of 250 signed deluxe copies. In children’s literature, signed first limited editions in dust jacket of A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard’s Winnie-the-Pooh and House at Pooh Corner are included as is an inscribed 1869 edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Fine printing includes the magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner and early books include Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum.

10am

EXHIBITION
Sat, April 27th Noon - 5pm
Sun, April 28th Noon - 5pm
Mon, April 29th Noon - 5pm

SPECIAL PREVIEW
View a selection of highlights at Doyle during the ABAA New York Antiquarian Book Fair:
Fri, April 5th - Mon, April 8th Noon - 5pm

Doyle - New York
175 East 87th Street

New York, NY

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June 20, 2024 Swann Auction Galleries

Illustration Art
Sale #2673

Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street

New York, NY

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May 2, 2024 Swann Auction Galleries

Modern & Post-War Art
Sale #2667

Our May Second auction of Modern and Post War Art has a strong contingent of Surrealist work. A Max Ernst collage as well as drawings by André Masson and Francis Picabia start off the section, followed by several works by American surrealist artists from the collection of Philip J. and Suzanne Schiller. The Schiller collection focuses on Social Commentary by American artists. In 1995 an exhibition and accompanying catalog of the collection titled, “In the Eye of the Storm: An Art of Conscience 1930 – 1970: Selections from the Collection of Philip J. & Suzanne Schiller,” opened at the Terra Museum Of Art in Chicago then travelled to several other venues. The majority of the Schiller collection was acquired by the Columbus Museum of Art in 2005.

Gallerists Dorothy and Eugene J. Prakapas opened their New York Photography gallery in 1976. Their interests extended well beyond photography. Swann is pleased to offer works from their collection by Japanese sculptors, Minoru Niizuma and Tomihisa Handa, and painter Yoshio Sekine as well as works by German artists Walter Dexel and Karl Peter Röhl, and  American modernist artists Paul Kelpe and John Sennhauser.

One example of a particularly influential American painter is Janice Biala. Our museums and galleries have begun focusing on so many important artists that were overlooked along racial or gender discriminatory lines. Biala is now celebrated with a Retrospective in 2013 held at Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, NY, followed by shows at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY, 2018, McCormick, Chicago, 2020, and at Berry Campbell Gallery, NY closing this month, April 2024. A few other women artists in this auction are Irene Rice Pereira, Judith Rothschild, Sonia Sekula, and Edith Schloss.

12pm

EXHIBITION HOURS:
Apr 27th 12pm - 5pm
Apr 29th 12pm - 5pm
Apr 30th 12pm - 5pm
May 1st 12pm - 5pm

Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street

New York, NY

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