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The Legal Aid Society has defended immigrants, advocated for children and families, protected…
Bonhams will offer Lily Tomlin & Jane Wagner: Wit, Women & The Art of Collecting next month…
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A charming sketch by Winnie the Pooh illustrator E. H.
SAN FRANCISCO—On the eve of its centenary, the Brick Row Book Shop of San Francisco is the primary contender for oldest bookstore in the United States. The elegantly appointed shop in Union Square was first established in New Haven in December 1915, with additional branches springing up in…
Poignant letters—never before made public—to Antarctic hero Dr Edward Wilson, who froze to death with Captain Scott on their doomed return from the South Pole in 1912, are to be
New York—On Tuesday, November 24, Swann Galleries’ Books & Manuscripts department will offer Art, Press & Illustrated Books.
NEW YORK, 2 November 2015—On 17 December, Sotheby’s will offer at auction an outstanding collection of images from Robert Frank’s The Americans, one of the most influential books of photography ever published. Collectors Ruth and Jake Bloom assembled this extraordinary group of iconic photographs…
Sotheby’s London will offer the first complete edition of the most luxurious atlas in the history of printed maps: Joannes Blaeu’s Atlas Major. The largest and most expensive book when published in the 17th-century, the Atlas Major remains the most magnificent work of its kind ever produced.…
DALLAS—The only known Style D one sheet for MGM’s 1932 classic Tarzan the Ape Man, notable for accurately depicting star Johnny Weissmuller as he actually appears in the film, is estimated to sell for $40,000 to $80,000 in Heritage Auctions next Vintage Movie Poster Auction, but with no recent…
Two fascinating letters from James Bond author, Ian Fleming, to a doctor who wrote to him about his most famous fictional creation are being sold at
The extremely rare and the highly important held sway at PBA Galleries’ auction of Rare Cartography, Exploration & Voyages: The Warren Heckrotte Collection, Part I - Exploration & Early Approaches, held on October 29, 2015. The select, 202-lot offering concentrated on the exploration and…
The Boston Athenæum is proud to present the upcoming exhibition, Collecting for the Boston Athenæum in the 21st Century: Maps, Charts, & Plans, opening to the publ
