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Highlights of Bernard Quaritch's new Women Printers, Publishers, Booksellers catalogue…
Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985, on view at The J. Paul Getty Museum running…
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London — The Welsh painter and poet David Jones rarely found life easy. As he wrote to his great friend Valerie Wynne-Williams, ‘When people say they paint for 'pleasure' I am dumbfounded. It's always a vast struggle for me. Perhaps I'm awfully bad at it really – but there's nothing else I can do…
An extraordinarily rare Lou Gehrig handwritten letter is among Important Baseball Autographs up for bid in Boston-based RR Auction Sports auction closing August 20.
Sought-after one-page letter on Andrew Jackson Hotel letterhead, dated April 6, 1936. Letter to his accountant Theodore Witkin…
New York — Swann Galleries’ summer offering of Vintage Posters on Thursday, August 27 is set to bring an assortment of material, from war propaganda to advertisements for summer destinations and sporting events, as well as a select choice of Art Nouveau and Art Deco designs by notable artists.
One of the UK’s finest twentieth-century book illustrators and graphic designers, Barnett Freedman (1901-1958), is being celebrated at the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, England. Barnett Freedman: Designs for Modern Britain in the first major exhibition of his life and work for sixty years.
Boston — A group of four Elektra Records signed promotional photos of The Doors sold for $18,262, according to Boston-based RR Auction.
The vintage matte-finish photographs individually signed in black felt tip, "J. Morrison," "John Densmore," "Robby," and “Ray.”
This is the only set of these…
Spencer W Stuart, Collections Advisor, is pleased to announce an expanded, three-part format of Lifecycles: Collecting & Collections. These one-hour webinars will be expanding on his introductory sessions delivered in April and June of this year, taking a deeper dive into the three distinct…
London — Rare association and inscribed books linked to Jack the Ripper, Marlon Brando and Alan Turing are among the highlights of Peter Harrington’s new Summer Catalogue – a 203-item selection featuring the latest acquisitions to the London rare book dealer’s shelves across an eclectic range of…
Earlier this summer, we posted about a virtual exhibition and catalogue celebrating the 250th anniversary of a journey during which Joseph Banks discovered and documented 1,300 previously unknown botanical species, a project that would in time become the famous Florilegium.
Brooklyn, NY — Marvin Getman of Getman’s Virtual Book & Paper Fairs has taken his popular rare book fairs all online since the pandemic hit the United States; and he has done so with tremendous success. More than 200 vendors are expected to participate in the popular Brooklyn Antiquarian Book…
Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Seth James, Special Collections Manager at Vigo County Public Library in Terre Haute, Indiana.
What is your role at your institution?
I am the Special Collections Manager at Vigo County Public Library in Terre Haute Indiana.
