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A new exhibition at The Grolier Club looks at the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early…
The Ephemera Society of America's Ephemera 46 Fair opens today and runs through March 22 with…
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New York—On Tuesday, December 11 Swann Galleries will conduct an auction of Fine Photographs & Photobooks that ranges from early issues of Camera Work and views of New York City to glamour girl portraits and police mug-shot albums, to edgy…
Fairfield, Maine, November 26, 2012 — James D. Julia, Inc., one of the nation's top ten antique auction houses, has just unveiled several innovative technologies in association with their November 28th and 29th Lamp & Glass and November 30th Advertising, Toy & Doll Auctions. …
London - On 29 November, on the eve of the 400th anniversary of the foundation of the Romanov dynasty, Christie’s will offer for sale the largest group of Russian books and manuscripts with Imperial provenance to come to auction in decades: Michael Fedorovich, Elizabeth, Catherine II, Paul,…
[Amherst, MA - November 26, 2012] The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is proud to announce an exhibition and events in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Caldecott Award. The greatly coveted Caldecott, named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott, is…
Holabird-Kagin Americana is proud to announce that they are putting up for auction a ledger once owned by the "Boy General" George Armstrong Custer. This 155 page journal has entries in the General's own hand on about eight pages. The entries involve the purchases of several thoroughbreds and…
New York—Henrietta Leon Girshman’s carnets de salon reveal the storied life of an early 20th-century doyenne of society and culture. Her two-volume set of autograph albums abound with more than 100 inscriptions, sketches, musical passages, literary quotations and autographs penned by the celebrated…
San Francisco — Bonhams is pleased to announce its sale of Fine Writing Instruments, December 19 in San Francisco, led by several Montblanc America's Signatures for Freedom Series Limited Edition 50 Fountain Pens, in honor of former US presidents James Madison (est. $20,000-30,000), George…
(November 19, 2012—Amherst, MA) The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is pleased to offer the rare opportunity for guests to see selections from the 20th-century classic, Charlotte’s Web, written by E.B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams. Some Book! Some Art!: Selected…
The timeless books 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1889) and 'Through the Looking Glass' (1901) are featured in the Polar II sale at Bonhams on 4th December at Knightsbridge (estimate £2,000-£4,000)
New York—Thomas Malin Rodgers, Jr. (1943-2012) formed an incredibly extensive collection of dictionaries and other lexicographical works, spanning 3,500 years in date—from a 16th-century B.C. cuneiform tablet to a first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary issued in parts from 1884 to 1933.…
