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Artistic duo Anna and Elena Balbusso known as the Balbusso Twins will present their first solo…
A rare copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone goes under the hammer this morning with an…
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LOS ANGELES- Profiles in History, run by Joe Maddalena, is proud to announce that the personal correspondence and manuscripts from the world’s greatest authors will be included at their December 18 auction, The Property of a Distinguished American Private Collector. Part I of The Property…
Later this week (after the flood waters recede), the International Fine Print Dealers Association Print Fair comes to New York City's Park Avenue Armory. It is known as the largest international art fair that deals exclusively with printmaking, where prints in any medium, from the sixteenth century…
(Philadelphia, Pa) — Freeman's next auction of Modern & Contemporary Art takes place on November 4, 2012. We launched the first of our semi-annual sales dedicated to the subject in 2006. Ever since, our commitment to presenting a potent mix of world-class international artists and great local…
New York—The star lot in Swann Galleries’ October 11 auction of Art, Press & Illustrated Books was Das Werk von Gustav Klimt, Einleitende Worte: Hermann Bahr, Peter Altenberg, a stunning volume containing 50 plates in the original case designed by Julius Dratva, Vienna and Leipzig, 1918—it is…
Yesterday at Bloomsbury Auctions in London, a remarkable collection of modern firsts was sold. It was the collection of biographer and critic Clive Hirschhorn, who had been collecting for more than thirty years. The collection encompassed most of the landmark titles of twentieth-century American…
London — Christie’s sale of Valuable Manuscripts & Printed Books on 21 November 2012 will feature fine illuminated manuscripts and literary manuscripts by Franz Kafka and Gabriel García Márquez among others. Leading the auction are deluxe catalogues of the collections of one of the most…
Publication AnnouncementTHE ROXBURGHE CLUB: A BICENTENARY HISTORY By Nicolas Barker. The Roxburghe Club, 2012
Our series profiling the next generation of antiquarian booksellers continues today with Jonathan Kearns of Adrian Harrington in London. Jonathan also runs the Bibliodeviancy blog.
By definition, picture books offer superb examples of how image and text come together in an artistic way. Some picture book artists, like Eric Carle, Maurice Sendak, and Garth Williams, transcend even that definition. A new exhibit and book show that Maud and Miska Petersham, a husband-and-wife…
