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York, PA - Hake’s Americana wrapped its 50th-anniversary year with a November 14-16 auction that set multiple company and auction-industry records as it crossed the finish line at $1,754,464. All prices quoted are inclusive of 18% buyer’s premium.
Boston, MA—How does a show about the past evolve for the future? With an innovative production tour and new-look episodes! ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, PBS's most-watched ongoing series, releases the 2018 production tour with first-time stops exclusively at distinctive, historic locations…
Daniel Crouch Rare Books will bring maps of three of the most exciting cities in the world to the Winter Antique Show, which runs from 19 - 28 January in New York’s Park
The weather outside wasn't too frightful, and there were plenty of other festivities taking place nearby, but this weekend's Northampton Book and Book Arts Fair enjoyed brisk business and lively discussion.
The Northampton Book and Book Arts Fair is produced by Book Arts Promotions in…
Ithaca, NY—National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, announces the launch of their next auction catalog.
This catalog features rare, antique and decorative books as well as select additions of ephemera. Featured is a second session of selections from a substantial private library that…
On December 14, UK auctioneer Dominic Winter will offer the book collection of Richard Adams, the novelist best known for his 1972 novel, Watership Down.
Washington, DC—At its October 2017 Board of Trustees meeting, the National Gallery of Art acquired works including a rare early painting by Morris Louis (1912-1962), two complete bound volumes by Giovanni Francesco Costa (1711-1773), a 1928 drawing by Stuart Davis (1892-1964), and a…
Eagle-eyed readers may recall our story back in April about a Kickstarter-funded biography on William Addison Dwiggins, that twentieth-century book designer who coined the term "graphic design" back in the 1920s. …
A rare, complete "museum set" comprising 75 gelatin silver prints of Ansel Adams' iconic images, signed by the photographer, is slated for auction at Doyle in New York on December 14. Being sold on behalf of the College of New Rochelle, which received the set as a donation in 2012, the set "is…
London—Today we reveal the British Library’s cultural highlights for the year ahead, including:
