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Bonhams' 50 Years Of Punk dedicated auction next week will focus on artefacts from bands such as…
Highlights of the Potter & Potter Houdiniana & Magic Memorabilia auction on April 18…
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A guest post by Webb Howell, FB&C's publisher, who is in California this week for the book fair. With apologies to Dale Chihuly, of whom Eric Sinizer, the owner of Light Opera Gallery on Post Street in San Francisco, is no fan, the craft glass movement may have seen better days. Chihuly, says…
A guest post by Webb Howell, FB&C's publisher, who is in California this week for Codex and the CA book fair. What do a dentist, a poet, an artist, and a printer have in common? If you answered an extraordinary passion for book arts, then you are correct.
NEW YORK — One of the very early developmental sketches that legendary animator Chuck Jones made of Wile E.
At every big book fair--and this weekend's California fair is often cited as the biggest--there are generally a couple of auctions that coincide with the event, capitalizing on all those fresh collectors in town. Here are some of the lots that caught my eye from the Bonhams sale coming up on Sunday…
PBA Galleries invites you to join us to commemorate our 500th auction to be held on Monday, February 18th in our San Francisco Gallery. Preview the 225 lots in our Fine and Rare auction prior to the start of the sale and mingle with exhibitors and visitors following the 46th California…
The manuscript of one of Oscar Wilde’s most original and beautiful poems, ‘Les Ballons’, is to be sold on 8 May in Part II of the sale of The Roy Davids Collection Part III: Poetry: Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets at Bonhams, New Bond Street. It is the only known copy of the…
PARIS — LES ENLUMINURES (www.lesenluminures.com) gallery is bringing a number of exceptional examples of Illuminated Medieval and Renaissance miniatures, manuscripts and jewelry to the 2013 edition of TEFAF in Maastricht, The Netherlands, from March 15 - 24.
Anyone that's ever worked with rare books holds on to the hope that someday they'll dust off an old tome and out will spill some previously undiscovered - but amazingly relevant - piece of ephemera.
NEW YORK — The original cover art for Watchmen #1 — the issue that began the most influential graphic novel series of the 1980s — is expected to bring $100,000+ as part of Heritage Auctions’ Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction Feb. 21-22 in New York.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Edward E. Marsh has spent thirty years and millions of dollars assembling one of the largest and most significant collections of science fiction on the planet. And now he is gifting much of it to San Diego State University’s Love Library.
The gift, valued at more than $2.…
