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A complete three-volume set of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in first editions,…
Christ Church Oxford and the Bodleian Libraries have become joint owners of an exceptionally rare…
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SAN FRANCISCO—Letterform Archive has launched a crowd-funding campaign to publish its 2014 Letterforms & Birthdays wall calendar. The campaign is hosted by Kickstarter and can be seen at: http://bit.ly/lettarccal.
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One hundred and fifty books from the late Sir Robert Horton’s collection of the Aldine editions of Latin and Greek masterpieces produced in Venice in the late 15th and early 16th century are to be sold at Bonhams Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs sale in London on 12 November. In…
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New York—On Thursday, November 21, Swann Galleries will conduct an auction of 19th & 20th Century Literature that offers a special collection of early detective fiction by Rex Stout—creator of iconic armchair detective&
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Washington, D.C.—Daniel De Simone, curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, has been named Eric Weinmann Librarian at the Folger. He begins in January 2014.
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BOSTON, MA—Skinner, Inc. will feature an exceptional selection of important rare books, including a section of children’s books, historic documents, natural history prints, and maps during its Fine Books & Manuscripts auction, November 17.
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Kestenbaum & Company’s fall auction scheduled for Thursday, November 14th at 3:00 pm will be the company’s Sixtieth auction of Fine Judaica since the firm’s creation in 1996. The sale will feature close to 500 lots consigned by more than 85 vendors from around the globe. Of particular note are…
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DALLAS—One of the rarest posters from Universal Studio’s golden age of movie monstrosities, a scarce insert for the 1935 horror classic Werewolf of London could sell for $35,000+ Nov. 16-17 in Dallas. The wide-ranging Vintage Movie Posters Signature® Auction offers 1,100+ diverse lots ranging from…
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Dreweatts and Bloomsbury Auctions have great pleasure in presenting an auction of works by some of the most celebrated book illustrators, including Henry Alken, George Cruikshank, James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson, as well as illustrators Joseph Crawhall and Edward Gordon Craig. This single-owner…
Events
The 2013 Winter Fine Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia runs from Tuesday, 5th to Sunday, 10th November 2013 with a Collectors’ preview evening on Monday 4th November 2013.
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The Library of Congress will display the Nicolay copy of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in the spectacular Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building for 10 days, before the top treasure is placed in the Library’s exhibition "The Civil War in America."