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London — James Joyce’s Ulysses was published at Sylvia Beach’s Paris bookshop Shakespeare & Co, on 2nd February 1922. A hundred years on, the book is still fascinating and maddening readers around the world, often hailed as a “demonstration and summation” of the entire modernist movement.
Clogs, sketchbooks, and an iconic waistcoat will go on display alongside hundreds of other literary artifacts later this month when a major new exhibition telling the life story of children’s writer Beatrix Potter opens in London.
Amsterdam — Every now and again, those of us lucky enough to be immersed in the world of antique books come across something that particularly excites us.
It may be the age and edition that is exciting. This particular book is a first edition from 1543.
Perhaps it is the importance of…
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New York — Drawing in more bidders than any other auction in Bonhams history (live or online), The Library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg online sale completed Thursday as a white glove sale, with every lot selling well beyond its pre-sale estimate. Leading the sale was the standout performance of…
Boston — Remarkable Royalty is featured in RR Auction's February Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale.
Boasting 1,000+ lots, the auction is highlighted by royal autographs from the Tudor era to the present day—including King Henry VII, King Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, the Romanov princesses,…
Earlier this week, an extensive research portal created to explore the work of French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) went live. A collaboration between the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Centre Pompidou, and Association Marcel Duchamp, the platform aggregates the digitized archival holdings at…
Berkeley, CA – PBA Galleries' first auction of the year, Sale 752 held on January 13th had an impressive 91% sale rate, with a large amount of early bidding on numerous lots, and competitive bidding throughout the sale.
New York — 70 years ago, Swann Galleries held the first auction dedicated to photography in the United States. The 1952 auction was astonishingly early for a sale devoted to a medium just 113 years old and still finding its artistic footing in the marketplace. Seven decades later, however, the…
A rare image of Charles Dickens with a mustache rather than his more familiar beard has gone on display for the first time at the Charles Dickens Museum in London. The daguerreotype profile portrait of Dickens, made in the early 1850s when he was writing Bleak House and Hard Times was a gift to the…
