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Los Angeles, January 12, 2013--Blacksparrow Auctions is pleased to present The Arthur Ronnie Collection: Books and Autographs, to be held on Sunday, February 10, 2013, at 11am PST. James Gray Gallery at Bergamot Station Art Center in Santa Monica, CA will host the live auction. Public preview…
Washington, DC—The Ballets Russes—the most innovative dance company of the 20th century—propelled the performing arts to new heights through groundbreaking collaborations between artists, composers, choreographers, dancers, and fashion designers, with such familiar names as Picasso, Stravinsky,…
The 31st Annual Akron Antiquarian Book Fair will be held 3:00 to 8:30 p.m. on Friday, March 29, and 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 30, 2013. Admission donation to the Book & Paper event is $5.00 or $3.00 for Students.
More than 40 vendors will offer rare and…
Sharon L. Gee of Los Angeles, California is pleased to announce her acquisition of PBA Galleries as of January 1st of this year. Sharon is a successful business woman and bibliophile. Previously, Ms. Gee was a Medical Device Sales and Account manager for LMA North America where she led the…
New York, NY, 2013—For several successive evenings in January 1879 Edgar Degas (1834-1917) attended performances by a famous aerialist known as Miss La La at Paris’s Cirque Fernando. Riveted by what he saw, Degas would immortalize her breathtaking act—she was hoisted to the circus’s seventy-…
January 2013 — The inauguration of Presidents has always sparked great interest in the memorabilia that goes along with the festivities. From President George Washington to FDR, a wealth of artifacts, original documents and media coverage of the day is available from a collection called HISTORY YOU…
The last known handwritten poem by John Keats in private hands is one of the star items in the sale of the Roy Davids Collection III: Poetry: Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets which will be held in two parts on 10th April and 8 May 2013 at Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street. The sale is…
New York—Swann Galleries kicks off their Winter 2013 auction season with an unprecedented sale devoted to 20th Century Illustration: Original Art / Books, Featuring Maurice Sendak on January 24. There is a plethora of original cartoons, book illustrations, dust jacket designs and sketches.
San Francisco-Bonhams looks forward to presenting its sale of Fine Books & Manuscripts, February 17 in San Francisco, timed to coincide with the 46th Annual California International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Concourse Exhibition Center, February 15-17 (not affiliated with Bonhams).
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller is pleased to announce The Long Now, a solo exhibition of recent works by Brooklyn-based artist Christopher Saunders, opening January 12, 2013, and on view through February 23rd. A reception for the artist will be held on January 12, 6-8pm.
