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The Chelsea Rare Book Fair returns to the Chelsea Old Town Hall on the Kings Road in London on…
More than 70 Bibles and devotional works from from the Estate of Robert Funk will go under the…
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May 2014—Boxtel, The Netherlands. Which bookbinding technique to use, for which purpose? It is hard to find the answers to that question.
New York—Swann Galleries’ auction of American Art on Thursday, June 12 features important unique works by artists such as Will Barnet, Paul Cadmus, John La Farge, Guy Wiggins and Andrew Wyeth.
A complete first edition set of the novels by the three Brontë sisters sold at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ Important Books and Manuscripts sale on Monday 19th May.The unique collection was formed by American lawyer Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, founder of Chadbourne & Parke. Bidders…
OxCrimes is published in aid of Oxfam by Profile Books and features 27 of the finest crime writers from Britain and beyond. It is introduced by Ian Rankin.
In addition to the regular paperback edition (published May 2014) Oxfam and Profile have created a special signed limited edition cased…
DALLAS—Gil Elvgren’s sultry but sweet portrait titled Thinking of You (Retirement Plan) sold for $209,000 to lead a record setting selection of pin-up art in Heritage Auctions’ May 7 Illustration Art Signature® Auction in Beverly Hills. The $2.1 million auction set multiple artists records…
New York, NY, May 21, 2014—The Morgan Library & Museum announced today that its large collection of etchings by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669)—considered the finest in North America—has been fully digitized and will now be available online beginning May 22.
“All ornithologists are not artists. Many artists are not successful businessmen. In the field of natural history the accomplishments of this man in his 76 years of life from 1804 to 1881 are truly monumental. No other ornithologist has ever exceeded (or will ever exceed) the number of Gould’s bird…
New York—May 20, 2013—The centenary celebration of Dylan Thomas’s birth (born Swansea: October 27, 1914; died New York City: November 9, 1953)—Dylan Thomas 100—continues in Wales with news of additional multi-disciplinary events being added to the festival’s creative mix.
DALLAS—The original artwork featuring the first ever appearance of Wolverine, by artists Herb Trimpe and Jack Abel, on the final page of The Incredible Hulk #180 (1974), arguably the most important debut of a comic book character in the last 40 years, tied a record for any page of American comic…
New York—Swann Galleries’ April 29 auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints saw robust results, with several new auction records set and strong prices for works by Rembrandt van Rijn and Albrecht Dürer, reflecting enduri
