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NEW YORK — A CGC 6.5-graded copy of Detective Comics #27 (DC, 1939), the first appearance of “The Batman,” realized $567,625 as the lead lot in Heritage Auctions $4.39+ million Vintage Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction on Feb. 21-22 at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion (Ukrainian Institute of…
The manuscript of Charlotte Brontë’s poem, “I’ve been wandering in the greenwoods,” written when she was just 13, is to be sold on 10 April in Part I of the sale of The Roy Davids Collection Part III: Poetry: Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets at Bonhams, New Bond Street. It is…
Our series profiling the next generation of antiquarian booksellers continues today with Alex Obercian of James Cummins Bookseller in New York City.
Denver, PA — Morphy’s 700-lot March 30 Advertising & General Store Auction brings together 700 lots of colorful antique amusements, including a remarkable collection of rare, primarily 19th-century safes. Many popular genres of advertising are represented, including tobacco, alcoholic beverages…
CHICAGO — In celebration of their 25th anniversary, the nation’s largest and most fascinating antique store, Architectural Artifacts, Inc., 4325 N. Ravenswood Ave, is staging a 2000 plus-lot, three-day auction on Friday, April 5th, Saturday, April 6th and Sunday, April 7th, beginning at 10 a.m. The…
"Books as well as other things have limits to their value beyond which we would not go," Thomas Jefferson wrote to his bookseller in a letter from Monticello dated April 11, 1819.
New York—Following the success of Swann’s inaugural auction of Fine & Vintage Writing Instruments in fall 2012, this sale offers pens to please the most discriminating connoisseur as well as outstanding opportunities to enhance beginning and advanced collections.
On April 10, Christie’s New York will offer a letter from Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of the structure and function of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), to his son, outlining the revolutionary discovery, dated 19 March 1953 (estimate: $1-2 million). The 7 page handwritten letter expresses Crick’s…
