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Minneapolis, MN — Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2022 MCBA Prize is San Antonio, Texas–based artist Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder for her artist’s book, If You Need Anything.
New Haven, CT — The William Reese Company, the world’s leading antiquarian bookseller of printed and manuscript Americana, is pleased to announce the continuation of the William Reese name and bookselling tradition under the new ownership of a joint venture between New York-based James Cummins…
Coming to auction next month is a dazzling collection, notable for its first editions, modern illuminated manuscripts, and beautiful bindings. There’s a Nuremberg Chronicle, a Second Folio, and a Fourth Folio. Plus Arthur Conan Doyle, Samuel Johnson, and Mary Shelley, just to name a few of the…
Los Angeles – The J. Paul Getty Museum presents Dutch Drawings from a Collector’s Cabinet, an exhibition showcasing for the first time a magnificent group of 17th-century drawings acquired from a private collector in 2019. On view at the Getty Center from October 11, 2022, to January 15, 2023…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Sören Schuhmacher, proprietor of Chunking Books, who recently relocated from Germany to northern Spain.
On July 17, 1846, Edgar Allan Poe wrote to John Bisco, the publisher of the Broadway Journal, a magazine Poe once edited, to ask him to call upon an attorney in relation to “attacks made upon me” by playwright Thomas Dunn English. Poe and his friend-turned-foe had been trading barbs (and punches)…
Minneapolis, MN — Minnesota Center for Book Arts is pleased to announce our newly-selected MCBA/Jerome Foundation Book Arts Mentorship Recipients: D’Angelo Christian, Minneapolis-based photographer; Michael Khuth, St. Paul-based independent curator and lens-based collage artist; and Leah Klister,…
Quite a week coming up in the salerooms, including auctions of the library of William St. Clair and of the Glaisdale Agricultural Library.
Philadelphia — Freeman’s September 21 Books and Manuscripts auction inaugurated Freeman’s fall auction season with the remarkable $277,200 sale of New Englands First Fruits (Lot 11). The extremely rare first edition on early colonial New England includes the first printed account of Harvard…
Chicago — Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce this nearly 600-lot sale to be held on Thursday, October 20th starting at 10am. The event will be held online and live streamed, with a limited number of bidders physically allowed in the gallery as determined by current Illinois public…
