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Highlights of the Potter & Potter Houdiniana & Magic Memorabilia auction on April 18…
Highlights from the collection of rare book dealer, publisher, and collector David Aronovitz will…
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Just in time for this year's Burns Night celebrations, a Scottish researcher has uncovered two lost manuscripts by the famous poet, along with several letters between Burns and his friends. The researcher, Chris Rollie, received a call from an old friend alerting him to an exciting find within her…
Initial from 16th c. Antiphonal ms. (Bibliopathos)
Well that's a headline to entice many readers and collectors -- it's also the title of a new novel by Syrie James, author of The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen.
Los Angeles, January 12, 2013--Blacksparrow Auctions is pleased to present The Arthur Ronnie Collection: Books and Autographs, to be held on Sunday, February 10, 2013, at 11am PST. James Gray Gallery at Bergamot Station Art Center in Santa Monica, CA will host the live auction. Public preview…
Washington, DC—The Ballets Russes—the most innovative dance company of the 20th century—propelled the performing arts to new heights through groundbreaking collaborations between artists, composers, choreographers, dancers, and fashion designers, with such familiar names as Picasso, Stravinsky,…
Catalogue Review: Buddenbrooks Rare Books and ManuscriptsI don't know how it has happened, but I've never had the opportunity to visit Buddenbrooks Rare Books (in Boston) or even to peruse one of their catalogues -- until now. I've been flipping through catalogue 159 all week, each time finding…
The 31st Annual Akron Antiquarian Book Fair will be held 3:00 to 8:30 p.m. on Friday, March 29, and 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 30, 2013. Admission donation to the Book & Paper event is $5.00 or $3.00 for Students.
More than 40 vendors will offer rare and…
Our series profiling the next generation of antiquarian booksellers continues today with Simon Patterson, proprietor of Hyraxia Books in Leeds, England.
Sharon L. Gee of Los Angeles, California is pleased to announce her acquisition of PBA Galleries as of January 1st of this year. Sharon is a successful business woman and bibliophile. Previously, Ms. Gee was a Medical Device Sales and Account manager for LMA North America where she led the…
New York, NY, 2013—For several successive evenings in January 1879 Edgar Degas (1834-1917) attended performances by a famous aerialist known as Miss La La at Paris’s Cirque Fernando. Riveted by what he saw, Degas would immortalize her breathtaking act—she was hoisted to the circus’s seventy-…
