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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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Last week Tom Phillips celebrated his 75th birthday and the release of the 5th edition of The Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel, a watershed in the latter-day history of artists' books inspired by Surrealist methods in cutting, pasting, and heavy duty reassembly and collage. The work takes the…
Kestenbaum & Company will conduct an early Summer auction of Fine Judaica on Thursday, June 21 at 3:00 pm at their New York City gallery located at 242 West 30th Street. Viewing will be held from Sunday, June 17 through Wednesday, June 20. The extensive, 420-lot auction covers a broad…
DALLAS - The only known document in private hands signed by both legendary American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the men who opened up the West for America after the historic Louisiana Purchase of 1803, is expected to bring $100,000+ in Heritage Auctions’ June 10 Legends of the…
Does the death of an author have an immediate impact on his or her "collectability"?
New York, NY, June 1, 2012—Although best known for his brightly colored, minimalist paintings, Ellsworth Kelly has also worked with sculptural forms for most of his professional career. These often large-scale works exhibit the same spare, clean-edged beauty associated with his paintings, while…
MIDDLEBURG, VA. The National Sporting Library and Museum is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition, Endangered Species, by the contemporary Washington, D.C., artist Kay Jackson, is comprised of over twenty contemplative gold-leaf panel paintings and boxes.
A Gentle Madness is not only the name of the bestselling and most comprehensive book about the passion of book collecting, it has become a widely recognized term to describe the innocent addiction to, and allure of, acquiring books. Anyone afflicted with this malady is certifiable and in good…
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc. is pleased to announce the acquisition of a world class James Joyce collection, with material for sale individually and on view by appointment in our Manhattan offices and in our East Hampton gallery throughout the summer.
Our series profiling the next generation of antiquarian booksellers continues today with John O'Mara of Maggs Brothers in London. This entry concludes our brief sojourn across the Atlantic in celebration of the Olympia Book Fair last weekend. Look for the series to return to British shores…
