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Leyburn, North Yorkshire, England — A first edition, first impression of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone sold for £80,000 (plus buyer’s premium), one of a number of outstanding results seen in Tennants Auctioneers’ Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on 28th July.
Rick Gekoski is both a book dealer and a writer, often applying his pen and his wit to the cloistered world of rare books, manuscripts, and archives. His latest, published in the UK earlier this month, is called Guarded by Dragons, a reference to a Saul Bellow quote he uses as the book’s epigraph…
Hudson, New York — Furthermore grants in publishing, a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund, is pleased to announce the 2021 Alice Award Short List:
The Art of Winold Reiss: An Immigrant Modernist
New-York Historical Society
E. McKnight Kauffer: The Artist in Advertising
Cooper Hewitt,…
A comparatively low-key week coming up, but here are the sales I'll be watching:
Early Printing, Americana, Science, Prints & Ephemera at New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, July 27, in 175 lots. Quite a range of material here, most with fairly low starting bids.
Last weekend, a new literary attraction debuted in Bath, England, that sounds incredibly cool: Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein.
The summer catalogue from London’s Peter Harrington includes rock ’n’ roll legend Elvis Presley’s annotated copy of The Prophet by Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran. The volume of twenty-six prose poems is being offered for £19,500 ($26,670) and is the first time this particular copy is for sale…
The intriguing story of how Oliver Twist literally set Charles Dickens’ pulse racing is recounted in a new exhibition at the Charles Dickens Museum in London.
Here are the auctions I'll be watching this week:
New York — Swann Galleries’ seasonal offering of Vintage Posters is at auction Thursday, August 5. The sale will include the customary slate of advertisements and design with exceptional examples of French artists, World War I and World War II propaganda, the Olympic Games, transportation and more.
Boston — A letter written by Founding Father Thomas Jefferson sold for $68,750, according to Boston-based RR Auction.
