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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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New York, NY, August 13, 2013 — The New-York Historical Society is proud to display one of the most famous and storied coins in the world—the 1933 Double Eagle. The Double Eagle will be on display in New-York Historical’s Ro
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Cincinnati, OH — August 12, 2013 — The Lloyd Library and Museum is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of a Project Grant from the Ohio Arts Council, a grant made possible through a grant to OAC by the National Endowment for the Arts. This grant went to support the installation of the…
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a gift of materials related to writer Robert E. Howard (1906-1936), a prominent and prolific writer in the fantasy genre. Though Howard is perhaps best known for…
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Washington, DC—Featuring 125 working proofs and prints produced at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, one of the most influential printmaking studios of the last half century, Yes, No, Maybe goes beyond celebrating the flash of inspiration and the role of the imagination to examine the…
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SAN MARINO, Calif.—Visitors to The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens this fall are in for a treat—several of them, in fact.
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August 8, 2013—One of Italy’s greatest treasures, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Codex on the Flight of Birds,” will be exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., for 40 days this fall, from Sept. 13 until Oct. 22.
Auctions
DALLAS — Frank Miller’s original cover art for the second issue of his landmark 1986 masterwork, The Dark Knight Returns, brought $478,000 and the highest-graded copy of Batman #1 ever certified — a 9.2 grade by CGC Near Mint Minus — brought $567,625 to lead Heritage Auctions’ $6.7+ million Comic…
Events
Amherst, MA — On Thursday, September 26, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will celebrate its 10th anniversary with over 300 fellow children’s book artists, authors and advocates at Guastavino’s in New York City for the eighth annual Carle Honors.
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The winners of the 2013 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest are: First Prize: Elias Serna, University of Califonia-Riverside, The Chicano Movement Second Prize: Ashley Young, Duke University, New Orleans’ Nourishing Networks Third Prize: Amanda Zecca,…
Auctions
Beverly Hills, California—August 6, 2013—Julien’s Auctions, the world’s premier celebrity and entertainment auction house, announced the exclusive auction of Property From The Collection of Bob and Dolores Hope to take place on Friday, S