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Boston — Johann Sebastian Bach signed document acknowledging payments for the annual performance of a funeral motet on St. Sabina's Feast Day sold at auction.
An excessively rare handwritten receipt by composer Johann Sebastian Bach sold for $400,000, according to Boston-based RR Auction.
Los Angeles – The Getty Research Institute has acquired an archive of more than 250 artist’s books. The Max Gimblett Artist’s Book Collection, created by painter, calligrapher, and Zen monk Max Gimblett, are a gift by the artist and his wife, scholar and curator Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. These…
Berkeley, CA – PBA Galleries' Comic Books Sale 3022 held on February 3rd had an unprecedented percentage of 99% sale rate. The auction witnessed a large number of new bidders that were particularly active and competitive throughout the whole sale. Top prices were fetched for several "unslabbed"…
Surrey, England — To be sold at auction on Thursday 10th March, this exceptional work, which is dated 1963, was produced for a family with whom Betjeman was staying in Anglesey and is the first known draft of A Bay in Anglesey. The poem was first published in the Cornhill magazine’s winter 1964-65…
Berkeley, CA – PBA Galleries' Fine Art and Photography Sale 753 held on January 27th was a very successful auction with lot of activity. It aroused a deep interest on lots of great diversity; the prints and lithographs did particularly well.
Detroit — The Detroit Festival of Books is excited to announce its fifth-annual festival on Sunday, July 17.
This year’s Bookfest will be a fifth-annual celebration of literature and culture in southeast Michigan. The Eastern Market Partnership continues to support Bookfest and is again hosting…
London – The peripatetic life of the 19th century Irish painter George Chinnery (1774-1852) took him from the Tipperary of his birth to London, then to Serampore in West Bengal via Madras, Calcutta and Dacca. Fleeing his creditors, he arrived in Macau in 1825 and made the island his home until his…
Stuttgart, Germany — Even though an in-person fair is not yet possible due to the ongoing pandemic, the German Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, VDA, has kept with the tradition of its printed catalogue, an important component of the Stuttgart fair each year.
The much-anticipated catalogue of…
New York — Fine Books & Autographs are at Swann Galleries Thursday, February 17. Autographs from inspirational figures across technology, politics, literature and beyond will feature, alongside scarce first editions from the twentieth century and noteworthy artist books.
Austin, TX — To mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s landmark work of literary modernism, “Ulysses,” The University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom Center will offer a virtual program on its new Joyce exhibition on Feb. 2—100 years to the day after “Ulysses” was…
