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Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare
HS Rare Books
65 Pondfield Rd., suite 9
Bronxville, NY 10708
(347) 321-4819
HS Rare Books is an antiquarian book seller based in Bronxville, New York,
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Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare
BATTLEDORE LTD
Post Office Box 2288
Kingston, NY 12401
(914) 439-6020
Rare Books specialist: original children's book illustration art including
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Autograph Dealer
Lion Heart Autographs Inc.
(212) 779-7050
Since 1978, Lion Heart Autographs has been among the world’s most widely-recognized
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Presses: Fine & Private
interrobang letterpress
18 Kenton Road
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
(617) 522-4236
Over 30 years of digital and hot-metal typographic design. Binder's labels to
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Rare Books
Five Rare Books for Collectors: Natural History
17th Century Royal Commode Designed Like a Book at Firsts London
Firsts London 2024 Highlights
Maps
Early Maps, Photographs and Artists’ Books Chart 500 years of the Arctic
Early Baseball Sheet Music, Arrowsmith’s Maps, JFK Presentation Copy: Auction Preview
Rare New Amsterdam Map Helps Reveal Life in New York Before New York
Visual Art
Magazzino Italian Art Acquires Full Run of Annina Nosei Gallery Catalogues
Hundreds of Copies of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four to Feature in Anniversary Library Artwork
Original Harry Potter Cover Illustration to Auction with $600,000 Estimate
Photographs
Wartime Letter Written by Queen Elizabeth II With Signed Photogaph to Auction
Wilson Centre for Photography Deposits Collection of Early Photographs at the Bodleian Libraries
Street Photographer Vivian Maier's Vintage Prints, Self-Portraits and Earliest Camera Work to Auction
Sponsored
Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying
In Lincoln’s Own Words
Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale
Americana
San Francisco Center for the Book Awarded NEA Grant for David Anthony King Exhibition
Millions of Historical Records Held by the National Archives to be Digitized and Made Accessible
Benjamin Franklin Book-Related Items to Auction
Book Arts
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration Awarded £3.75m to restore derelict New River Head Buildings
World Premiere of New Bröntes Play Opens at National Theatre
The Creative Process of Italy's Most Prolific Small Publisher, Alberto Casiraghy
Book People
Dickinson and Darwin, Why We Read, and Drink Maps: May Books Roundup
The Bibliographical Society’s New YouTube Channel
Small Volume Books' Justine Johnson on Goofy Erotica, Fan Fiction, and CABS-Minnesota
Auctions
Black Panther Portraits, Babbage Presentation Copies, Signed Churchill Photograph: Auction Preview
Messi Napkin Contract for Barcelona FC Sold for Just Short of $1m
JFK's Handwritten Notes the Night Before His Assassination Sold for $34,504
Exhibitions
Original MAD Magazine Illustrations Featured in New Norman Rockwell Museum Exhibition
Raymond Briggs' Writing and Drawing Desk Goes on Display for First Time
Exhibition of Book-like Objects Opens at at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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