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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 — If we think that eating healthily and economically are modern preoccupations, we should perhaps think again. A stunning, and historically important, collection of antiquarian cookery books and manuscripts, to be sold at Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts sale in London on Wednesday 19th…
Before we get to the upcoming sales, some notes from last week:
New York — Swann Galleries’ sale of Fine Books & Manuscripts on Thursday, July 30 boasted high prices across categories with early printed books leading the sale, two records being recorded for literature, and autograph material from world leaders garnering attention.
Surrey, England — A rare surviving Carry On film poster that sparked a court case with Hollywood studio giant Twentieth Century Fox is coming to auction at Ewbank’s in Surrey on August 21.
Southhampton, PA – It’s far out, man. Stephenson’s August 14 auction of rock concert posters from the Estate of Perry Pfeffer will take you on a trip back in time to the days of peace, love, incense and sitars. The mind-blowing 339-piece collection was amassed by Pfeffer for his own personal…
What was Oscar Wilde’s favorite amusement? “Writing sonnets and reading.” Favorite occupation? “Reading my own sonnets.” Aim in life? “Success: fame or even notoriety.”
New York – Poster Auctions International’s (PAI) second sale of the year, on July 21st, finished at $1.3 million in sales. Auction LXXXI proved an ongoing passion for posters.
In March 1994, Neutrogena CEO Lloyd Cotsen's massive trove of children's literature arrived at its new residence at Princeton University's Cotsen Children's Library. Part of the donation agreement included the publication of a printed catalogue. After three 18-wheelers deposited more than…
Ken Sanders has been buying and selling rare books for more than fifty years, but the COVID-19 pandemic has put his Salt Lake City book shop in jeopardy and so he is reaching out to his supporters for financial help. A GoFundMe page that launched last week has already surpassed $100,000 of its $250…
Westport, CT – A United States flag flown aboard the Apollo XIII space mission in 1970 with a NASA certificate signed by all three astronaut crew members, a manuscript document for the sale of G. Westinghouse & Company from George Westinghouse, Sr. to his son in 1871, and an albumen…
