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Ragtime: Cakewalk in Pianoland following ragtime's path from the musical traditions of enslaved…
Frank Earle Schoonover’s Where is the Key, Sola? painted for the first book edition of A Princess…
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Printed Matter has announced its Sunday Zine Fair, a special day-long event held on November 19 on the occasion of the Brooklyn Museum’s expansive survey exhibition on artists’ zines Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines. The Fair will convene more than 60 exhibitors in the…
Incline Press has launched Gifts of the Magi, a collection of new poems by Jamie McKendrick. Winner of numerous national and international writing prizes, this is their second collaboration (following the tri-lingual chapbook, The Hunters, in 2015) as they hope to mark the approaching season…
Highlights from Peter Harrington's recent catalogue Friends on the Other Side: Journeys in the Occult include:* Gerald B. Gardner, The Meaning of Witchcraft. London: The Aquarian Press, 1959
A never-before-seen photo of soldiers leaving Northern Ireland to fight in World War One and a serviceman’s diary from the trenches will go under the hammer at Hansons Auctioneers’ WW1 Auction on November 7.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues with Jalynn Harris who won second prize in this year's David Ruggles Book Collecting Contest for young collectors of color.Where are you from / where do you live?I was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland and currently still live here.What did you…
The J. Paul Getty Museum's new exhibition William Blake: Visionary features over 100 striking works by English printmaker, painter, and poet, William Blake. On view at the Getty Center through January 14, 2024, this is the first major international loan exhibition of Blake’s work on the West Coast.
London Transport Museum in Covent Garden has opened its new Global Poster Gallery, its first permanent gallery dedicated to the history of poster art and design.The museum cares for one of the world’s largest collections of 20th century graphic art and design, with around 1,000 original poster…
A duo of remarkable historical artifacts, including an 1833 copy of the Declaration of Independence and an autograph letter signed by Ernest Hemingway on grizzly bear hunting, are set to go under the hammer at the Nate D. Sanders Auctions on October 26.
Occult and esoteric works offer a broad church of material for collectors, writes Suzanna Beaupré from Peter Harrington. Its scope ranging from legal accounts of early modern witch trials through to 20th-century literature inspired by those on the other side, travelling through divination, alchemy…
Hindman will hold its fall Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana sale on November 10. Featuring more than 400 lots, the sale includes early fencing books, an extensive run of works by Sir Richard Francis Burton, a selection of livres d’artistes in very fine 20th-century bindings…
