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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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[ITHACA, NY] National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY hosted a Sunday, May 6th auction that featured a broad range of rare antique books, as well as a quantity of ephemera and artwork. An impressive collection of World’s Fair ephemera and other material was sold from the estate of…
A magnificent copy of the first edition of what has been described as the most beautiful book on fish ever published leads Bonhams sale of the Angling Library of Alan Jarvis at Knightsbridge on Tuesday 22 May.
Sandra Hindman, the owner of Les Enluminures, known for its museum quality Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts and art, has opened a new gallery in New York. This is in addition to its Paris gallery of more than twenty years, located opposite the Louvre at Les Louvre de…
Beverly Hills, California - May 2012 - Julien’s Auctions, the world’s premier entertainment and celebrity estate auction house and the Les Paul Foundation have partnered for an auction of extraordinary property and collection of guitars, equipment, musical artifacts and personal effects from the…
Book artist Richard Minsky has just announced his latest work, Pop Delusions, a house made out of his own credit cards, Chinese and American paper money,
Amherst, MA - The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats, the first major United States exhibition to pay tribute to award-winning author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983), whose beloved children’s books include Whistle for Willie (1964), Peter’s Chair (1967), and The Snowy Day (1962),…
WORCESTER, MA— To celebrate its bicentennial, the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) commissioned Philip F. Gura to write The American Antiquarian Society, 1812-2012: A Bicentennial History.
“Beaten & Bound” is a look at a unique group of contemporary book and paper artists at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN. Much like glassblowing, paper-making and book binding are ancient craft forms that had a major re-birth and resurgence in the twentieth century and…
Just in case we biblio-folk needed some perspective: last week's sale of "The Scream" for $119.9 million was more than the totals realized over all the book auctions in 2011 for both Christie's and Sotheby's combined.Before we get to May, some April sale notes:
