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Highlights from the collection of rare book dealer, publisher, and collector David Aronovitz will…
Christie’s will offer Collection Roger Therond, Une passion française in Paris later this year.The…
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The Guardian reported yesterday that the United Kingdom lost 200 libraries in 2012.
December 11, 2012. - viaLibri (www.vialibri.net), the international search engine for old and rare books, has just launched a German version of its popular website.
New York—Bonhams auction of Russian Literature and Works on Paper brought spirited bidding for many of the sale’s significant lots, underscoring and celebrating the perennial interest in this area of collecting.
New York—Bonhams December 4 auction of the Dictionary Collection of Thomas Malin Rodgers had strong results from start to finish, realizing sales over $1.1 million. A spring-like day in New York sparked lively bidding that ricocheted between the collectors in the saleroom to bidders on the phone…
Can't win an Oscar? Buy one. On Thursday of this week, Sotheby's New York will sell Lewis R.
The highly acclaimed Master Drawings New York returns to Manhattan where dealers from around the world are holding coordinated exhibitions in art galleries located on New York’s Upper East Side. This annual event, which has attracted four new international dealers this year, enables both collectors…
Oak Knoll Books of New Castle, Delaware, has just issued its 300th catalogue, a feat that certainly deserves some attention. As readers of this blog will know, Oak Knoll is both an antiquarian bookseller and a press devoted to the books about books genre.
Baltimore—The Walters Art Museum presents New Eyes on America: The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville, an exhibition with richly-painted depictions of daily life created during the transformative years prior to the American Civil War. During a tragically short career, the Baltimore-born and European…
DALLAS - A stunning, near perfect 1933 Style B three sheet movie poster for the RKO classic King Kong realized $388,375 in Heritage Auctions’ Nov. 29 Vintage Movie Poster Signature® Auction, shattering the house record for a price realized for a movie poster in a Heritage event. All prices include…
NEW YORK, 5 December 2012 - Sotheby’s New York auction of Fine Books & Manuscripts on 14 December 2012 will be highlighted by the largest and most significant group of correspondence and drawings by Charles Schulz - celebrated creator, author and artist of the Peanuts cartoons - ever to be…
