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Stuttgart, Germany — For the first time in its 60 year history, the Stuttgart Rare Book Fair, always held in January in the South-German city of Stuttgart and well established with international collectors and the trade, had to be cancelled and as many other international events in the rare book…
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Paris — Following the successful sale of the first two parts of the Une bibliothèque des avant-gardes, Paul Destribats, Christie's Book Department is pleased to announce the sale of the third part, with 502 lots for a total estimate of €1,438,800-2,075,200. Three catalogues will be produced for the…
Boston — A 100-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald handwritten letter sold for $37,987, according to Boston-based RR Auction.
The four-page handwritten letter, undated but, circa late 1920, to "Mr. Fitzgerald,” in Paterson, NJ, replying to commentary on This Side of Paradise, in which the protagonist '…
Our current issue delves into the life and career of trailblazing assemblage artist Betye Saar, whose exhibition remains on view for another two weeks at the Morgan Library & Museum. If you can’t make it there, take a quick spin here:
Basel, Switzerland — Beginning the new year with an exciting event, the Stuttgart Antiquariatsmesse is going online from 29th January to the 1st February. Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books AG brings twenty exceptional, museum-quality works to the fair, and features two wonderful stately books which are…
New York — Swann Galleries will open the winter 2021 season on Thursday, January 28 with a sale of Illustration Art featuring the Dick McDonough Collection of Golf Illustration.
London — It is our pleasure to inform you that Edward Nassau Lake is, from 1st January, joining Brian Lake and Janet Nassau as a partner in Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers, Bloomsbury.
Ed has worked in the family firm for fifteen years and demonstrated not only that he is a knowledgeable…
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, D.C., announced earlier this week the acquisition of its first work by the nineteenth-century French photographer Charles Aubry (1811–1877). Aubry’s Untitled (A Study of Leaves) (1864) is indicative of the botanical still lifes for which he is best…
The Strand Magazine continues its fine tradition of publishing previously "lost" or missing works in its new issue, due out January 17, which will feature a lost—and timely—Shirley Jackson story. According to the Guardian, Jackson’s son, Laurence Hyman, found it “among many others haphazardly…
