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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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The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts, always has exciting events, exhibits, classes, and family programs going on. Over the next few days, however, there are a few certain to interest bibliophiles, whether you collect children's lit or not. One happens this Sunday the…
July 8 -- DALLAS, TX - Effective July 8th the assets of Greg Martin Auctions of San Francisco, CA, one of the nation’s top auction houses of antique arms & related historic memorabilia were acquired by Heritage Auctions, the world’s largest collectibles auctioneer.
July 6, 2011--American regional writing gained increasing popularity in the years following the Great Depression and beyond. The period 1938 to 1980 was an especially fruitful one for this type of documentation of the nation’s people, history and culture, as well as America’s natural treasures -…
Late last year I posted a brief warning that infamous book thief John Gilkey was again active. ABAA Security Chair John Waite just circulated this update on Gilkey:
Jerry Morris, a collector with the Florida Bibliophile Society and longtime blogger at My Sentimental Library, launched today a new blog called Biblio-Connecting. As he writes in the first entry: "that's what this piece is all about: how a bibliophile connects with
other people in the book world,…
Elsevier announced today the launch of an online catalogue of the Elsevier Heritage Collection, comprising over 2,000 rare books with more than 1,000 distinct titles published by the original Elzevier publishing house from 1580 to 1712. Based in the Netherlands and closely tied to…
A fairly quiet month for auctions, July, but here's what's due to come up on the block:
The National Sporting Library and Museum, Middleburg, Virginia, celebrates the opening of its Sporting Art Museum in October 2011.
Catalogue Review: Sumner & Stillman, No. 146I love nineteenth-century fiction, and I love decorated publishers' bindings -- put them together and that makes me a bibliophile who loves Sumner & Stillman, ABAA member located in Yarmouth, Maine. When I attend book fairs, I always stop by…
