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Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Asmaa Walton, curator of the Black Art Library:
Please introduce us to the Black Art Library:
Literary memorabilia is alluring to collectors, as the recent Joan Didion auction made clear. Bits and pieces owned by famous authors come to auction occasionally and always draw attention. To see three such objects owned by Charles Dickens up for sale—during Dickens season no less!—is noteworthy.
New York City – An exhaustive and curated collection of over 900 works of fiction and non-fiction dedicated to Mars – the mysterious Red Planet – is for sale through Manhattan Rare Book Company. The price is $975,000. The collection traces the history of the centuries' long understanding (and…
Produced as Christmas gifts for ‘friends in printing and publishing’ between 1930 and 1973, each slim, limited edition volume was a testament to the craftsmanship and skill of its designers and printers.
Perhaps because they were given away as gifts, we never had our own set of the books and only…
Sotheby’s current winter Music Sale is packed with a wide variety of lots of interest for collectors of music items. The highlight is a collection of mostly unpublished 44 autograph letters by composer Johannes Brahms to the George Frideric Handel expert Friedrich Chrysander. These cover a range of…
Los Angeles – An archive belonging to poet Charles Bukowski will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on December 8, 2022. Interested bidders may participate in the auction online.
Join Bonhams in celebrating the 90th birthday of the beloved illustrator and children's author Sir Quentin Blake this December. This very special sale will comprise of 140 drawings – nearly all of which have been drawn especially by Quentin for this sale – with all proceeds going to the Quentin…
Here are the auctions I'll be keeping an eye on this week:
At New England Books Auctions on Tuesday, December 6, 206 lots of Fine Books & Ephemera.
235 years ago, America’s Founding Fathers signed the United States Constitution at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, marking the formation of the country’s most significant and lasting document—as well as the longest continuing charter of government in the world.
New York - Doyle is honored to offer the Collection of a New York Surveyor in a timed auction closing on Friday, December 16, 2022 at 10am. This fascinating collection of manuscript maps of Manhattan tracks the changes of the developing city from 1750-1850. The Collection will be offered as a…
