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Chicago – Hindman Auctions achieved more than $4.2 million across three days of Fine Art auctions. Across the December 13th American and European Art, the December 14th Post War & Contemporary Art and the December 15th Prints & Multiples auctions, bidders from 32 countries and 42 states…
Boston — A Gone With the Wind shooting script presented to Leslie Howard by David O. Selznick sold for $22,688 according to Boston-based RR Auction.
The front cover and spine are beautifully gilt-stamped, "Gone With the Wind, Screen Play," with the recipient's name stamped at the bottom right of…
A very quiet couple of weeks to close out December and 2021 in the auction rooms. Just a trio of sales to keep an eye on through the end of the month:
In the new book, My Cookbook Passion: Culinary History and Adventure in Exploring My Personal Collection (Gaudium, $49.99), author Pamela Kure Grogan combines vintage recipes with a heaping spoonful of bibliophilia.
London – Earlier this year, Sotheby’s announced that the manuscripts, first editions, letters and bindings that make up the legendary Honresfield Library -- assembled with passion by self-made Victorian industrialists William and Alfred Law at the turn of the 20th century -- were to be offered at…
London – The only Darwin Microscope to have ever been offered at auction was sold in Christie’s Valuable Books & Manuscripts auction on 15 December 2021, achieving £598,500 / $791,816 / €702,041. The Gould-type microscope by Cary (estimate: £250,000 – 350,000) was gifted by Charles Darwin (1809…
As we noted in our autumn 2020 article, “Beethoven at 250,” published on the occasion of the composer’s semiquincentennial, the British Library holds one of the top Ludwig van Beethoven collections in the world. Special pieces from that collection are now on exhibit and include such personal items…
Book collecting prizes for students have restarted in the UK after a Covid-enforced lapse. Earlier this year, the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association awarded its National Book Collecting Prize to Karissa Adams from the University of Edinburgh for her collection ‘Leonora Carrington: A Surreal Life…
Chicago — Emerging on the heels of late 60s political movements, a new form of alternative magazine amplified marginalized voices, redefining entrenched mainstream representations and forever changing the magazine industry. From the 70s through the mid-90s, American and British photo-driven…
Dallas — A rare first edition of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone sold Thursday at Heritage Auctions for $471,000, the highest price ever paid for the boy wizard's debut in any form.
