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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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Doyle New York will auction Rare Books, Autographs and Maps on November 5, 2012 at 10am. The material ranges from early illuminated manuscripts to modern first editions. Categories include Americana; bibliography and fine printing; illustrated books of all periods, including atlases and color plate…
AUSTIN, Texas — The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has introduced an online database for its entire Kraus map collection.The 36-map collection, acquired in 1969 by Harry Ransom from the New York antiquarian dealer Hans P. Kraus,…
Wes Anderson's love of inserting fake books in his films is well-documented (and arguably unparalleled). We recently wrote about the books in Anderson's latest film, Moonrise Kingdom. But that wasn't the first Anderson piece featuring made-up books. Quite a few also appeared in…
A few hours before dusk last Thursday in Archer City's town square, the parking spaces lining the courthouse and the perimeter of shops were at near capacity, yet there was no one in sight. I made a beeline for Building Four of Booked Up--the site of Friday's auction--and inquired about…
San Francisco—On October 10, 2012, Bonhams will bring to auction an unpublished and virtually unknown manuscript from psychologist, writer, countercultural guru and provocateur Timothy Leary. Titled The Periodic Table of Energy, and composed while Leary was an inmate in a California state prison,…
Ghost stories live
and die by their endings. Now your child has
an opportunity to finish a ghost story by a master of the form: M. R. James.
San Francisco-Bonhams looks forward to presenting its Fine Prints sale, October 23 in San Francisco, simulcast to Los Angeles, with such leading lots as Pablo Picasso's Lady with a Ruff, a 1963 color linocut (est. $40,000-60,000) and Richard Diebenkorn's Blue, color woodcut, 1984 (est. $40,000-60,…
Ninety antiquarian booksellers will be in attendance at the Baltimore Summer Antiques Show on Aug. 23-26 at the Baltimore Convention Center. We asked a few of them to share highlights of what they're bringing.
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY—Vassar will mark the 75th birthday year of Red Hook resident and multi-media artist Werner Pfeiffer with the exhibition “Reexamining Books: Book Objects and Artist’s Books by Werner Pfeiffer,” which will appear across campus in three locations—The Main Library (Thompson), the Art…
