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New York—On February 23, Swann Galleries conducted an auction of select Private Press & Illustrated Books, mostly from two stellar private collections, and 98 percent of the lots offered found buyers.
CHICAGO - The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS)
has selected five winners for the 2012 Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel
J. Leab “American Book Prices Current” Exhibition Awards.
AUSTIN, Texas—The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of novelist and short-story writer Tom Coraghessan "T.C." Boyle, author of such acclaimed works as "The Tortilla Curtain" (1995) and "World's End" (1987).…
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - Collector enthusiasm for the works Gil Elvgren remains undiminished as the great illustrators’ work dominated the top 10 lots of Heritage Auctions’ $3,000,000+ March 3 Illustration Art Signature® Auction, led by Vision of Beauty (Unveiling), 1947 (Realized: $140,500) and Let's…
Community Supported BookshopsGuest Blog by Todd Pratum of Owl & Company Bookshop, Oakland
MIDDLEBURG, VA - Scraps: British Sporting Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection, takes its title from Henry Alken’s series of drawings and prints that depict varied and often-humorous episodes of sporting and country life. The drawings on view in these galleries feature artists’ attempts to…
"The Angel Leaves the House: Women Bookmakers & the Aesthetic Page"March 28-May 11, 2012Exhibition at Mills CollegeF.W. Olin Library, Oakland, CA
WASHINGTON (March 2012)—The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) celebrates its 25th Anniversary with a broad range of signature exhibitions, events and programs. On April 7, 1987, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) opened its doors to the public to honor women artists of the…
Coming up this week at Swann Galleries of New York, a large auction of prints, drawings, and lives d'artiste. A major selection of prints and illustrated books of Jean-Emile Laboureur will start the 786-lot sale, followed by all the names you would expect in an auction of prints and drawings:…
