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New York — People who bought Suzie Frankfurt’s 1959 cookbook, Wild Raspberries looking for culinary inspiration were in for a surprise. In place of the lavish haute cuisine recipes common at the time, they found absurd concoctions such as that for Omlet Greta Garbo – Always to be eaten alone in a…
Unless you’ve been living with the Lorax, you’ve undoubtedly heard the news that six Dr. Seuss picture books have been pulled from shelves — not banned, but instead recalled by their owner, Dr. Seuss Enterprises. On March 2, the company released the following statement:
Today, on Dr. Seuss’s…
I'll be watching a quintet of sales this week:
Dallas – A 93-year-old Winnie the Pooh illustration, Chas Addams cartoons, all three original trilogy Star Wars video cassette covers and an array of pulp covers from Norman Saunders and Virgil Finlay are among the top highlights in Heritage Auctions’ Illustration auction April 30.
In our new spring issue, we profile the brilliant Bryan A. Garner, a lawyer, lexicographer, and America’s foremost grammarian, whose book collection numbers around 38,000 volumes, including 4,500 dictionaries and 1,900 grammars.
Chicago – Hindman Auctions will present Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection at auction on March 19. The sale includes several of the most significant literary works of the 19th and 20th centuries, representing both American and English literature. Strengths of the collection include…
Philadelphia — Freeman’s is delighted to announce the results of its February 18 Books and Manuscripts auction, which realized over $445k. With spirited bidding throughout the sale from bidders both online and on the telephone, the 166-lot auction achieved an impressive 91% sell-through rate and…
New York — Swann Galleries closed out February with an exceptional sale of Fine Books & Autographs, which saw a 90% sell-through rate and exceeded the total high estimate, bringing in $522,632. The auction brought forth historic autographs from political figures and celebrities alike, as well…
Chicago — Potter and Potter's first magic sale of 2021 surpassed all metrics by leaps and bounds, with 100% sell through, a new world's record, and receipts totaling nearly $200,000 OVER the auction's high presale estimate. After the hammer fell for the last time, 39 lots realized between $1,…
When well executed, posters are effective forms of propaganda: they convince viewers to do or buy something they might not otherwise. Effective posters linger in a viewer’s memory: think Roger Kastel’s shark imagery for the 1975 thrilled Jaws or J.M. Flagg’s famous 1917 depiction of Uncle Sam…
