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The ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair has returned to the Park…
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with 2025 David Ruggles Book Collecting Prize…
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At auction this week are 200 lots of books from the library of author/illustrator Maurice Sendak (1928-2012), sold in support of the Rosenbach Museum & Library.
Black authors have had a huge, under-acknowledged, impact on global literature. Here are ten Black American authors whose work may be unfamiliar to many, but deserve to be known and celebrated by all. These journalists, poets, novelists, and civil activists from the 19th and 20th centuries have…
A lauded actor, celebrated sleight-of-hand magician, and noted author, Ricky Jay (1946-2018) was also a passionate historian. During his life, he curated his own 10,000 piece collection of magic, circus, and show business ephemera, impressive and rare enough to be tapped for an exhibit at the…
In 1864 Mary L. Westerman, an officer of the local Soldiers’ Aid Society in Tazewell County, Illinois, wrote a letter to President Abraham Lincoln, urging him to make a donation to support the cause with a donation to a Sanitary Fair that was held October 18 of that year.
Here are the auctions I'll be watching this week:
Bonhams London holds their Connoisseur's Library sale on Tuesday and Wednesday, 7–8 February, in 792 lots of mostly furniture, art, accoutrements, &c.
New England Book Auctions sells 200 lots of Fine Books & Ephemera on Tuesday, February 7.
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) presents Mina Loy: Strangeness is Inevitable, the first monographic presentation of the art of Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Lowy, 1882-1966), one of the most important poets of the 20th century.
In Freeman’s first Books and Manuscripts auction of 2023, a rare, highly sought-after 1924 first edition of Ernest Hemingway’s in our time achieved $277,200.
“We’re honored to have been entrusted with such an important piece of literary history,” says Darren Winston, Head of Freeman’s Books and…
Lyon & Turnbull are presenting a spectacular document never before offered for sale, uniting Nelson with an astonishing array of characters in his story and providing a snapshot of a moment of sublime unreality amid a period of high tension in the contest for the Mediterranean. It…
Highlights from Justin Croft Antiquarian Books' latest catalogue 100 Victorian Gift Books from the collections of Peter Rose and Albert Gallichan include:
* Dalziel’s Illustrated Goldsmith by Oliver Goldsmith with one hundred pictures drawn by G.J. Pinwell, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. London…
The ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF) returns to the Park Avenue Armory in New York City April 27-30, 2023, for its 63rd Edition.
