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Hujar: Contact is an exhibition exploring the life, times, and creative evolution of photographer…
Magna Carta Regis Johannis XV die Junii AD MCCXV Anno Regni XVII was published in 1816 to mark the…
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Back in July, I wrote about the efforts of actor Johnny Depp and author Douglas Brinkley to bring to light Woody Guthrie's long forgotten no
On October 25th, 2012, PBA Galleries in San Francisco will offer at auction a remarkable collection of books, manuscripts, pamphlets and other material relating to the early history of California, its ranchos, and land ownership. The library of the late John C. Broome, of Fresno, California,…
Making My Way Through the 2012 Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair??Guest blog by Jonathan Shipley????
(Philadelphia, Pa) October 12, 2012 - Auctions love a mystery... Controversy has long surrounded the portrait of composer Johann Sebastian Bach, attributed to the unsung painter Elias Gottlob Haussmann. The top lot in Freeman's October 'International Sales,' it hammered in, after a vigorous…
Beginning on Thursday of this week, the Museum of American Finance at 48 Wall Street in New York City will be the set
San Francisco—The Fine Books and Manuscripts sale at Bonhams in San Francisco, held October 10 and simulcast to New York, brought a successful $1,338,263.
The Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), the organisers of the 22nd Chelsea Antiquarian Book Fair, are delighted to announce that they have more exhibitors than ever before taking part in the fair which will take place over two days on Friday, November 2 and Saturday, November 3, 2012 in the…
New York, NY, October 10, 2012 —The Tale of Peter Rabbit and other books by Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) have become classics of children’s literature and represent one of the most successful publishing enterprises in the history of the British book trade. Yet Peter Rabbit began not as a…
"A good way to make a small fortune in the book business is to start with a large one."
