A complete three-volume set of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in first editions,…
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Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Gabriel Duckels, winner of the 2021 Rose Book Collecting Prize at Cambridge University.
Where do you live?
In Cambridge in the East of England. I moved here in 2014, sort of by mistake, and joined the University a few years later. I started…
As the widely-held story goes, Sheriff Pat Garrett shot Billy the Kid on July 14, 1881, finally ending the gunslingin' outlaw’s reign of terror. Four months later, Garrett nabbed a book contract to tell his side of the story—the one that would stick for more than a hundred years, even if the…
New York—One gallery. Hundreds of objects. Countless stories.
The Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures will open on September 24, 2021, at the iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, giving the public an opportunity to see and explore over…
New York — The ABAA invites bibliophiles everywhere to join the hunt for rare books and all manner of fine works on paper at the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America’s Virtual Book Fair: New York Edition. This will take place September 9-12, in lieu of the in-person New York…
London — A first collected edition of Shakespeare's poems (1640) with an illustrious provenance – containing all but eight of the sonnets and other shorter, non-dramatic poetry – has returned to the UK after decades in the USA.
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
Philadelphia — Freeman’s is honored to present The Alexander Hamilton Collection of John E. Herzog, a single-owner sale of Alexander Hamilton material, in an October 25 auction.
Collectors of documents of American history, particularly items related to Hamilton and the US Federalist Era, will find…
Washington, D.C. — The Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired a collection of objects related to early American photography from the collector Larry J. West that transforms the museum’s photography holdings. The L.J. West Collection includes 286 objects from the 1840s to about 1925 in three…
Summer is on the wane, but perhaps some of you out there are still planning a trip away. If you're heading to Cape Cod, gather some extra KN95s and hand sanitizer and add the Edward Gorey House at 8 Strawberry Lane in Yarmouth Port to your itinerary. A museum since Gorey's death in 2000, the house…
Earlier this year, book artist and illustrator Hannah Batsel made this extraordinary, hand-painted carousel pop-up book and titled it Weirder Than Fiction, an homage to the sci-fi/fantasy magazine Weird Tales.
