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The Bodleian Libraries' forthcoming exhibition Wonder of Birds will feature rare 10th century…
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Last week at the celebrated Roy Davids poetry sale at Bonham's in London, poems by Charlotte Bronte and John Keats set new world records. The sale on April 10, which was the first of a two part poetry sale to be continued on May 8, netted a very impressive £940,000 (almost $1.5m).
Later this week New Orleans Auction Galleries will offer a very special copy of Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles: A Gallery of Contemporary New Orleans (1926) by William Spratling with introductory text by occasional New Orleans resident William Faulkner.
Yesterday I posted about my Friday at the Manhattan book fairs. I returned to the NYABF fair at the Armory on Saturday for another few hours of intense browsing. My first stop was row E, having only made it as far as D the day before.
I don't recall seeing a copy of E.B. White's famous book in my browsings yesterday at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair during the day or the Manhattan Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair in the evening -- but who knows, there is so much to see, and my eyes give up before my feet do.
NEW YORK, 12 April 2013 — On 26 November 2013, Sotheby’s New York will auction one of the finest surviving copies of the Bay Psalm Book — the first book printed in what is now the United States of America. The Congregationalist Puritans who emigrated to Massachusetts Bay in search of religious…
A unique, casket-side drawing of Abraham Lincoln is bound to be the highlight of the Professional Autograph Dealers Association (PADA) show this Sunday in New York City. This last true image of the assassinated president, drawn in ink and opaque white gouache on heavy paper, was executed by a…
New York, NY, April 11, 2013—The artist Matthew Barney (b. 1967) is best known for his sculptures and films, but drawing also plays a critical role in his work. Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney, on view at the Morgan Library & Museum from May 10 to September 2, is the first…
NEW YORK — The 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Dr. Francis Harry Compton Crick, along with Drs.
Here are a few other highlights en route to the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, which opens with a special preview tonight and continues with day hours through Sunday:From Bruce McKittrick, the first printed book on birds, William Turner's Avivm Praecipvarvm from 1544. ($45,000)
