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Highlights of the Potter & Potter Houdiniana & Magic Memorabilia auction on April 18…
Highlights from the collection of rare book dealer, publisher, and collector David Aronovitz will…
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DALLAS, TX - The original 1967 cover art for Amazing Spider-Man #49, by legendary comic book artist John Romita, Sr., featuring Spidey in a seemingly impossible bind between Kraven the Hunter and the Vulture, is expected to bring $100,000+ on Aug. 17-18 in Heritage Auctions’ Signature® Vintage…
What may be the most northerly printed book is going under the hammer today (July 21) at Lawrence's Auctioneers in
ABAA security chair John Waite has forwarded this Gilkey update/request from Inspector Jeff Levin of the SFPD. Please feel free to forward and/or repost.
Earlier this month convicted fraudster and thief John Charles Gilkey of California was arrested for a parole violation stemming from a series of…
For those of you who have been reading our summer issue, you might be as surprised as I was to learn about a folk artist named Clementine Hunter.
New York, NY, July 19, 2011—Chinese artist Xu Bing's spectacular work, The Living Word 3, was unveiled to the public at The Morgan Library & Museum on Tuesday, July 19, culminating a week-long installation directed by the artist of more than four hundred calligraphic characters. The Living Word…
Last week, the Guardian profiled the charm of battered books:"Books shouldn't be wilfully mistreated, but we shouldn't handle them with kid gloves. If they pick up imperfections and blemishes, then so what? A less than pristine book is a book with character. As we might, in time, come to look like…
David Zwirner is pleased to announce the gallery’s second annual summer pop-up bookstore. July 25 - August 5, 2011Hours: Monday - Friday, 10am - 6pmOpen late on Thursday, July 28 until 8pm for the second annual Chelsea Art Walk, an evening of extended hours and special events taking place at over…
Catalogue Review: Charles B. Wood, Bookseller, No. 150Charles B. Wood III is an antiquarian bookseller in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who stocks an eclectic selection -- from architecture to book about books to trade and commercial ephemera. In this catalogue #150: Rare Books and Manuscripts, the…
Long Island University’s Palmer School of Library and Information Science is pleased to announce the appointment of J. Fernando Peña as Director of its highly regarded program in Rare Books and Special Collections. Mr. Peña succeeds Dr. Deirdre C. Stam who directed the program for nine years…
