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New York, NY, June 22, 2012—Just in time for Independence Day, The Morgan Library & Museum is exhibiting several objects from its noted holdings of important Americana. The items were chosen to reflect the country’s achievements and struggles as it marks the Fourth of July holiday. The works…
New York, NY, June 2012—Josef Albers (1888-1976) is best known for his series of paintings Homage to the Square, in which he repeatedly explored color relationships within a similar format of concentric squares. Much less familiar, however, are the painted studies on paper that Albers made for his…
Los Angeles - Bonhams will be conducting tours of the famed Serendipity Warehouse in Berkeley, CA, and accepting bids on the contents through July 16th. To make an appointment to view the warehouse, please contact Adam Stackhouse at 415- 503-3266. Additional property from Serendipity…
NEW YORK—Bonhams offered for the first time this week an auction session dedicated to the sale of Russian Literature and Works on Paper. Among the 135 lots were Imperial Russian color-plate books and maps, original Constructivist designs, memorabilia of the Ballets Russe, avant-garde children’s…
Our series profiling the next generation of antiquarian booksellers continues today with Doug Flamm of Ursus Books in New York City. Doug's father, Eugene, a prominent book collector and president of the Grolier Club, was profiled recently in our magazine.
Paul Johnson's vivid pop-up, Palatium Paradisi Libro. Photo credit: Charles Byrne.
We recently spoke with Tim Yancey, a master bookbinder, and one of the founders of the Lost Gutenbergs project. After discovering a lost cache of Cooper Square Bibles, (famous facsimiles of the Gutenberg Bible printed in 1961) Yancey and Michael Crisman of Bookbinders Workshop decided to bind the…
On Tuesday, 10th July 2012, Sotheby’s London will offer an extraordinary mid-14th century manuscript written in Medieval Welsh — a language of near-legendary rarity — within its sale of Western Manuscripts and Miniatures. Almost certainly brought to America by Welsh settlers in the 1700s, it ranks…
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA -- Today marks the launching of the new used-book blog, "Get a Spine" (getaspinebooks.com), which chronicles two book lovers' pursuit of used classic literature, and the people they meet and places they go while in search of works to add to their home library.
